Re: State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystems for2.6.16-rc5

[Andrew Morton]

Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 15:29 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > - It would be nice to get Martin MOKREJ
> >   <mmokrejs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>'s full 16GB recognised again.  Dave
> >   Hansen is working on that. 
> 
> Martin, please step in here if your problem has come back...
> 
> After Martin applied my debugging patch, the problem went away.  Last I
> heard, he was going to boot back into a kernel without my patch to see
> if it stayed fixed.
> 
> My guess is that it is be a screwy BIOS that is causing the problem
> intermittently.  Otherwise, I can't imagine how some printks could
> affect the problem.  It's not like this is happening in code where there
> are SMP races.
> 
> I also checked around the office a bit to see if anyone else was having
> memory detection issues on large memory x86 machines.  No luck.

OK, thanks Dave.

> I'd put this into the "unreproducible" bucket for now.

IBM must make big buckets.
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