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DateWed, 4 Mar 2009 11:34:05 +0100
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: 32bit panic on 4 sockets

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 22:57 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > Looks like a genuine bootmem bug. Cc'ing Johannes and
> > > quoting whole body.
> >
> > it is x86 32bit numa code problem. it assume bootmem will
> > sit on first node only.
>
> Seems a bit daft to run a 32bit kernel on such a machine.. at
> some point we should just give up and not push this 32 bit
> madness any further.

it works just fine on a lot of systems - and since we keep
unifying a lot of these codepaths we are better off keeping it
all working.

Ingo


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