Re: 9a2d43b: __alloc_bootmem_core(): zero-sized request

[Yinghai Lu]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
dy...
>
> Yes, the v2.6.27-rc4 boots fine. I was wondering if you knew that this
> problem had occurred in the past (and if so, which commits I can
> cherry-pick to fix it). But I guess there is not much to do. It is
> also hard to test this same config with newer kernels, because
> something in the Kconfig changed in an incompatible way (e.g. NUMAQ
> setting changes when I change kernel versions).

a lot of changes on that section code in 2.6.27.

and according to old code, you are not supposed to use numaq enabled
kernel on non-numaq HW.
but from 2.6.27-rc1 you could do that. we made the code probe the
subarch and will fall back to default or bigsmp

YH
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