Messages in this thread | | | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | [PATCH 0/2] Fix two boot problems related to ZONE_MOVABLE sizing | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:00:32 +0100 (IST) |
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Following this mail are two fixes related to a boot problem in relation to ZONE_MOVABLE. These are fixes for memory partitioning where kernelcore= is used and is unrelated to grouping pages by mobility.
The first patch moves kernelcore= parsing to common code. This avoids an infinite loop that can occur when booting on IA64. As a side-effect, it extends support of kernelcore= to all architectures that use architecture-independent zone-sizing.
The second patch aligns ZONE_MOVABLE correctly. The bootmem allocator makes assumptions on the alignment of zones. This can cause pages to be placed on the freelists for the wrong zone resulting in a BUG() later. Aligning ZONE_MOVABLE avoids the problem.
They have been successfully boot-tested with and without kernelcore= specified on x86_64, ppc64 and IA64 (where the bug was first triggered). -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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