Re: 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 boot failure

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon May 16 2005 - 16:54:01 EST


On Mon, 16 May 2005, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> --On Monday, May 16, 2005 14:25:04 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> PPC64 NUMA box. Maybe this is the same NUMA slab problem you were
> >> hitting before ...
> >
> > Probably. Christoph, this patch has crossed the grief threshold - I'll
> > drop it.
>
> OK, fair enough. Christoph, I am interested in seeing your patch work
> ... is something that's needed. If you want, I can help you offline
> with some testing on a variety of platforms.

Some description of the failure would be helpful. A boot log? .config?

Does the box have CONFIG_NUMA off and CONFIG_DISCONTIG on?

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