Re: x86_64: 2.6.14 with NUMA panics at boot

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Oct 29 2005 - 12:08:54 EST


On Saturday 29 October 2005 16:54, Janne M O Heikkinen wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Janne M O Heikkinen wrote:
>
> > No, I get same panics with numa=noacpi or even with numa=off. If I compile
> > 2.6.14 kernel without CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA it does boot.
>
> It wasn't removing of CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA that made it boot after all, I had
> also changed memory model from "Sparse" to "Discontiguous". And now
> when I recompiled with CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA=y and with "Discontiguous" memory
> model it booted just fine.

Ok, that would explain it. I never test sparse, only discontiguous.
sparse is only an experimental option that is not really maintained
yet. Probably need to disable it if it's broken.

Perhaps Dave H. knows what to do with it.

-Andi

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