Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 May 2008 12:01:45 -0700 | From | Geoff Levand <> | Subject | Re: powerpc boot regression |
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Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:13 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:12:41PM -0700, David Miller wrote: >> > >> > This commit causes bootup failures on sparc64: >> > >> > commit 86f6dae1377523689bd8468fed2f2dd180fc0560 >> > Author: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> >> > Date: Mon Apr 28 02:13:33 2008 -0700 >> > >> > memory hotplug: allocate usemap on the section with pgdat >> >> >> <snip> >> >> We're seeing a boot failure on powerpc. git bisect points the problem >> at this commit. However reverting just this one comitt doesn't fix the >> regression. I also needed to revert >> 04753278769f3b6c3b79a080edb52f21d83bf6e2 (memory hotplug: register >> section/node id to free") >> >> Problem seen on power4, power5 and ps3. > > I don't see the problem on my power5 machine. Can you send the > config ? Is CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled ?
The bug is hit with ps3_defconfig. It does not have CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP set.
-Geoff
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