Re: 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 boot failure

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Mon May 16 2005 - 17:28:39 EST


--On Monday, May 16, 2005 14:40:57 -0700 Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?

attatched boot log. Config file is here:

http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/config/abat/p570

M.

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