Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SPARSEMEM + NUMA can't handle unaligned memory regions? | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Date | Tue, 09 May 2006 19:11:11 +1000 |
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On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 09:32 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Michael Ellerman wrote: > > I can't believe I'm the first person to see this, so I imagine I'm missing > > something. Perhaps it's only an issue on powerpc? > > > > I have a machine with some memory at 0, then a hole, and then some more memory > > which doesn't start on a section boundary. This is causing the following > > crash: > > > > add_region nid 1 start_pfn 0x77c0 pages 0x840 > > add_region nid 1 start_pfn 0x0 pages 0x6000 > > Nasty, could you send me your full boot log and your config and I'll > have a look at it. I can say this code has been booted on a lot of > power boxes and I've never seen that before! :)
Ah yeah, I seem to have neglected to mention it's a kdump boot :} Sorry. That's why we get the strangely aligned memory sections. The section starting at 0 is for the kdump kernel, the bit at 0x77c0 covers some firmware that's allocated there by the first kernel.
I can still give you a .config and log if you want it, but not 'til tomorrow morning.
> Anyhow, will take a look and see if we can avoid iterating over the area > to find it.
Yeah it's a bit nasty having the loop. I figure on most configs it'll pop on the first iteration, but still.
cheers
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