Re: 2.6.10-mm1 [failure on AMD64]

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jan 04 2005 - 07:23:26 EST


"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Monday, 3 of January 2005 18:19, Jesse Barnes wrote:
>> On Monday, January 3, 2005 2:07 am, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> > > add-page-becoming-writable-notification.patch
>> > > Add page becoming writable notification
>> >
>> > David, this still has the bogus address_space operation in addition to
>> > the vm_operation. page_mkwrite only fits into the vm_operations scheme,
>> > so please remove the address_space op. Also the code will be smaller
>> > and faster witout that indirection..
>>
>> And apparently it's broken on NUMA. I couldn't find
>> generic_file_get/set_policy in my tree, which builds with CONFIG_NUMA
>> enabled.
>
> On a dual-Opteron w/ NUMA I had to apply the Jesse's patch to compile the
> kernel, but it does not boot. It only prints this to the serial console:

I suspect it is fixed by Bill Irwin's patch from the
"[bootfix] pass used_node_mask by reference .." thread. Can you test that?

-Andi
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