Re: [BUG] x86: bootmem broken on SGI UV

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> * Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 07:59:45AM -0500, Russ Anderson wrote:
> > > Yes, Yinghai's patch fixes the problem.
> > > Thank you very much.
> > 
> > Will this be included in 2.6.36?  It is needed for boot in order for UV
> > systems to boot.
> 
> -tip uses memblock APIs. If this happens with vanilla -git as well 
> then we need a bootmem backport for the fix.

And to answer your question: yes, we can queue it up for -final as well 
if it's a recent regression - 'doesnt boot at all' bugs are nasty. But 
i'm not sure this is a bootmem problem so please double check vanilla 
v2.6.36-rc7 as well.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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