Re: [PATCH 0/2] panics booting NUMA SPARSEMEM on x86_32 NUMA

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue May 20 2008 - 08:09:29 EST



* Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We have been seeing panics booting NUMA SPARSEMEM kernels on x86_32
> hardware, while trying to allocate node local memory in early boot.
> These are caused by a miss-allocation of the node pgdat structures
> when numa remap is disabled.
>
> Following this email are two patches, the first reenables numa remap
> for SPARSEMEM as the underlying bug has now been fixed. The second
> hardens the pgdat allocation in the face of there being no numa remap
> for a particular node (which may still occur).

applied to -tip, thanks Andy.

Ingo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/