Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:30:04 -0600 | From | Robin Holt <> | Subject | Re: question about link_mem_sections() |
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:18:47AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 14:49, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:11:28PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > If you do decide to rework that logic, we can retest for the next couple > > months. We do not normally have a 16TB test machine lying around (IIRC, > > the memory in something like that costs a couple million dollars), but we > > do fortunately have one right now until the latter part of next quarter. > > The rework of the sys_devices with the goal to finally removal of all > sysdev stuff is in Greg's tree now: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/driver-core-next > It will be available in linux-next. > > The hinted search moved from the 'kobject' to the 'bus' as: > dev = subsys_find_device_by_id(&memory_subsys, block_id, hintdev); > > Would be nice if you can eventually give it a try, on the big box, to > make sure we didn't break anything.
If it is in linux-next, we may already have it.
Russ or Jack, IIRC, you had been doing some testing with linux-next on the 16TB machine. Is that correct? If so, do you happen to have a timed boot log that we could look at?
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