Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 May 2008 14:08:55 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] panics booting NUMA SPARSEMEM on x86_32 NUMA |
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* Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:
> We have been seeing panics booting NUMA SPARSEMEM kernels on x86_32 > hardware, while trying to allocate node local memory in early boot. > These are caused by a miss-allocation of the node pgdat structures > when numa remap is disabled. > > Following this email are two patches, the first reenables numa remap > for SPARSEMEM as the underlying bug has now been fixed. The second > hardens the pgdat allocation in the face of there being no numa remap > for a particular node (which may still occur).
applied to -tip, thanks Andy.
Ingo
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