Re: x86_64: 2.6.14 with NUMA panics at boot

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Sat Oct 29 2005 - 12:30:44 EST


On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 18:41 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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.

I'll try to dig up an Opteron machine on Monday and see what I can do.

-- Dave

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