Jesse Barnes a écrit : >On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:25:20AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > >>On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:22:12AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: >> >> >>>Yeah, sorry about that, I knew there would be a problem. We need to fix >>>the ia64 discontig code to init the boot memory in the correct order >>>instead since the below change breaks other discontig platforms. >>> >>> >>It looks like we should break out the second half of >>discontig.c:find_pernode_space() into a second function that inits the >>bootmaps in reverse order. As an added bonus, we could check to make >>sure that all of the pernode spaces actually got allocated and print a >>warning and/or disable the node if not. That would make debugging weird >>init time failures a bit easier (I think Alex ran into a problem that >>would have been quickly solved if we had such checks). Wanna take a >>stab at it? >> >> > >Does this patch work for you? It does a few things: > > o simplifies discontig.c:find_pernode_space() a bit due to the below > points > o does a sanity check to make sure that pernode spaces were > successfully allocated > o initializes the bootmem maps in reverse order > >If it looks ok, we can queue it up for 2.6.1. > >Jesse > > > hello Jesse The patch works OK for us. Thanks ! Xavier -- Sincères salutations. _____________________________________________________________________ Xavier BRU BULL ISD/R&D/INTEL office: FREC B1-422 tel : +33 (0)4 76 29 77 45 http://www-frec.bull.fr fax : +33 (0)4 76 29 77 70 mailto:Xavier.Bru@bull.net addr: BULL, 1 rue de Provence, BP 208, 38432 Echirolles Cedex, FRANCE _____________________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Dec 17 03:06:07 2003
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