Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:23:30 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 |
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Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:39 pm, Peter Chubb wrote: > > >>>>> "Jesse" == Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> writes: > > > > Jesse> On Wednesday, September 22, 2004 4:12 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >> - This kernel doesn't work on ia64 (instant reboot). But neither > > >> does 2.6.9-rc2, nor current Linus -bk. Is it just me? > > > > Jesse> I certainly hope so. Current bk works on my 2p Altix, and iirc > > Jesse> 2.6.9-rc2 worked as well. I'm trying 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 right now. > > Jesse> I haven't tried generic_defconfig yet either, maybe that's it? > > > > It no longer works on ZX. Don't know why. > > Maybe this is another, more severe instance of the problem James reported last > week that was worked around by enabling CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM. >
It looks like Tony is wearing the BPB. The below patch from September 8 is what causes my non-discontigmem virtual-mem-map ia64 box instantly reboot. Reverting it makes things happy.
--- b/include/asm-ia64/page.h 2004-09-08 10:23:43 -07:00 +++ b/include/asm-ia64/page.h 2004-09-08 16:12:10 -07:00 @@ -86,13 +86,14 @@ #ifndef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM # ifdef CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP extern struct page *vmem_map; -# define pfn_valid(pfn) (((pfn) < max_mapnr) && ia64_pfn_valid(pfn)) -# define page_to_pfn(page) ((unsigned long) (page - vmem_map)) -# define pfn_to_page(pfn) (vmem_map + (pfn)) +# define pfn_valid(pfn) (((pfn) < max_mapnr) && ia64_pfn_valid(pfn)) +# define page_to_pfn(page) ((unsigned long) (page - vmem_map)) +# define pfn_to_page(pfn) (vmem_map + (pfn)) +# else +# define pfn_valid(pfn) (((pfn) < max_mapnr) && ia64_pfn_valid(pfn)) +# define page_to_pfn(page) ((unsigned long) (page - mem_map)) +# define pfn_to_page(pfn) (mem_map + (pfn)) # endif -#define pfn_valid(pfn) (((pfn) < max_mapnr) && ia64_pfn_valid(pfn)) -#define page_to_pfn(page) ((unsigned long) (page - mem_map)) -#define pfn_to_page(pfn) (mem_map + (pfn)) #endif /* CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM */ #define page_to_phys(page) (page_to_pfn(page) << PAGE_SHIFT)
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