Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:18:00 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.64bk5: X86_PC + HIGHMEM boot failure |
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> I just verified that the problem also occurs with NUMA + > HIGHMEM_64GB (i.e., it is not limited to HIGHMEM_4GB). > > By the way, HIGHMEM_64GB without NUMA gets a lot father, but > still experiences memory corruption, probably same bug that caused me > to downgrade to HIGHMEM_4G months ago (i.e., probably not related to > this NUMA problem).
Yeah, we really ought to fix that. This one? http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5
>>> Sorry for my misunderstanding of the CONFIG_NUMA configution >>> options. > >> No prob ... should probably be made more obvious. Are you by any chance >> doing "yes | make oldconfig"? That's the obvious way to switch it on >> by chance ... if so, can I recommend doing "yes '' | make oldconfig" >> instead? That'll take the defaults, and work much better in general. > > I want a kernel that is as broadly hardware compatible as > possible and can take advantage of as much hardware as possible, in > that order. So, I guess I hope to reactivate CONFIG_NUMA once this > problem is solved.
Right ... I think I have some more patches from Andy somewhere, though he may not have tested with 64Gb on his PC ... I'll go look, and send them to you if I have.
M.
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