Re: 32bit panic on 4 sockets

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 22:57 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Looks like a genuine bootmem bug.  Cc'ing Johannes and
> > > quoting whole body.
> > 
> > it is x86 32bit numa code problem. it assume bootmem will 
> > sit on first node only.
> 
> Seems a bit daft to run a 32bit kernel on such a machine.. at 
> some point we should just give up and not push this 32 bit 
> madness any further.

it works just fine on a lot of systems - and since we keep 
unifying a lot of these codepaths we are better off keeping it 
all working.

	Ingo
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