Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:49:19 +0530 | From | Dhaval Giani <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (Was Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1) |
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:56:09PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > > > > Hi Andrew, Ingo, Thomas, Peter, > > > > > > x86: revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem > > > > > > The patch caused a failure while booting a kexec kernel. > > > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/7/42 has the bisect details.) > > > > > > The following patch reverts it. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > > > Thanks for tracking this down. I'll pull the patch from the x86 git > > tree as well. > > Dhaval, how about the other problem you had - do you have any guess > what it might be related to? >
other problem? The load_balance_monitor one? (We are still looking into that one, just seems that se (as usual :) ) is turning out to be null).
> i'm also wondering - what would be the easiest way to integrate kexec > into an automated test environment. If i have a bzImage kernel, is kexec > still supposed to work? Could i for example do a reboot into a new > (kexec-enabled) kernel via kexec in essence? >
Yes, I use a bzImage kernel to reboot using kexec. I use a script which just sets it up for me. (I can send it to you separately).
-- regards, Dhaval
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