Re: bisected crash due to "x86: Move swiotlb initialization beforedma32_free_bootmem"

[Ingo Molnar]

* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:56:50 +0100
> > Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> * FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> There are a few people who hit this. How many people use a box with over 
> >>> 256GB memory?
> >>>
> >>> And you can work around this with "dma32_size" kernel boot option.
> >> Well, since the kernel has not crashed before this change there's really just 
> >> two options as per upstream kernel regression policy: either we fix it or we 
> >> revert it.
> > 
> > As I wrote, here is a patch that can be applied to cleanly to the git
> > head:
> > 
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tomo/misc/0001-x86-two-stage-swiotlb-initialization.patch
> > 
> > It fixes the problem. Yinghai, can you test it? It should work but
> > it's good to confirm it.
> 
> i tested already, it works.

Ok, mind someone please resend the agreed-upon patch with a Tested-by/Acked-by 
line so that i can apply it?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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