Re: sparc64 bootup regression...

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:38:32 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:12:41 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > This commit causes bootup failures on sparc64:
> > 
> > commit 86f6dae1377523689bd8468fed2f2dd180fc0560
> > Author: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Mon Apr 28 02:13:33 2008 -0700
> > 
> >     memory hotplug: allocate usemap on the section with pgdat
> >     
> >     Usemaps are allocated on the section which has pgdat by this.
> >     
> >     Because usemap size is very small, many other sections usemaps are allocated
> >     on only one page.  If a section has usemap, it can't be removed until removing
> >     other sections.  This dependency is not desirable for memory removing.
> >     
> >     Pgdat has similar feature.  When a section has pgdat area, it must be the last
> >     section for removing on the node.  So, if section A has pgdat and section B
> >     has usemap for section A, Both sections can't be removed due to dependency
> >     each other.
> >     
> >     To solve this issue, this patch collects usemap on same section with pgdat.
> >     If other sections doesn't have any dependency, this section will be able to be
> >     removed finally.
> 
> Thanks.  Does a straightforward revert fix it?  If so, we could do that while heads
> are being scratched.

I'm now digging. plz wait a bit.

Thanks,
-Kame

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