Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:37:50 -0800 | | From | Mike Travis <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.24 git2/mm1: cpu_to_node mapping to non-existant nodes causing boot failure |
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Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote: >> On (19/02/08 08:12), Mike Travis didst pronounce: >> >>> Mike Travis wrote: >> > > Mel Gorman wrote: >> > > >> > >> If you send me patches to apply on top of 2.6.25-rc1, I'll give them a spin >> > >> on the machine in question. Reverting didn't work out very well as there are >> > >> too many collisions with patches that were applied later. I eventually got >> > >> the machine booting but it only succeeds because it only brings up one core >> > >> on each processor. The patch, which is pretty brain damaged is below in case >> > >> it helps you guess what the real problem is. dmesg logs are attached of the >> > >> vanilla failure with acpi=debug and the log with the patch applied showing >> > >> "__cpu_up: bad cpu 1" and "__cpu_up: bad cpu3" (i.e. the second cores of >> > >> each machine). >> > >> >> > > >> > > This should completely undo the change to 16 bit apic ids until we can figure >> > > out the problem with the memory-less nodes. I checked it on both the numa >> > > and non-numa x86_64 box. >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > Mike >> > > >> > >> > Hi Mel, >> > >> > Did you get a chance to try out this patch to see if it cleared up the problem >> > booting on your x86_64 numa box? > > did it fail with x86.git#testing? > > YH
Hi,
My problem is that I haven't been able to set up a NUMA box where some of the nodes have no memory. The one box we have, the serial port doesn't work and it's in a lab far, far away. Everything else, it works fine.
Mike
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