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    SubjectRe: sparc64 bootup regression...
    On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 04:15:40PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
    > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:38:32 -0700
    > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
    > > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:12:41 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
    > > > This commit causes bootup failures on sparc64:
    > > >
    > > > commit 86f6dae1377523689bd8468fed2f2dd180fc0560
    > > > Author: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
    > > > Date: Mon Apr 28 02:13:33 2008 -0700
    > > >
    > > > memory hotplug: allocate usemap on the section with pgdat
    > > Thanks. Does a straightforward revert fix it? If so, we could do that while heads
    > > are being scratched.

    That patch broke the s390 port to SPARSEMEM (not upstream yet) as well.
    Reverting it does help.
    However increasing SECTION_SIZE_BITS to 25 (was: 20) does help too.
    But that doesn't seem to help on sparc64 where it is already 30, strange.

    > How about this ? If this is messy (or doesn't work), Goto-san will rework
    > his own patch by himself. (this patch is against -mm but I think no HUNK to
    > git tree)
    >
    > ==
    > This kind of page allocation, which specifies the address range,
    > can fail easily.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiruyo@jp.fujitsu.com>
    >
    > Index: mm-2.6.25-mm1/mm/sparse.c
    > ===================================================================
    > --- mm-2.6.25-mm1.orig/mm/sparse.c
    > +++ mm-2.6.25-mm1/mm/sparse.c
    > @@ -264,10 +264,16 @@ static unsigned long *__init sparse_earl
    > * To solve above issue, this collects all usemap on the same section
    > * which has pgdat.
    > */
    > +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA /* contig_page_data for !NUMA case is not good to do this */
    > section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(__pa(pgdat) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
    > usemap = alloc_bootmem_section(usemap_size(), section_nr);
    > if (usemap)
    > return usemap;
    > +#endif
    > + /* above allocation can fail. */
    > + usemap = alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(nid), usemap_size());
    > + if (usemap)
    > + return usemap;
    >
    > /* Stupid: suppress gcc warning for SPARSEMEM && !NUMA */
    > nid = 0;

    Fixes it on s390 at least.


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