From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@gmail.com>,
Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
LinuxPPC-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>,
Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: powerpc boot regression
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 21:05:15 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080503205334.9A1A.E1E9C6FF@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209653507.27240.7.camel@badari-desktop>
>
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:13 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:12:41PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > >
> > > This commit causes bootup failures on sparc64:
> > >
> > > commit 86f6dae1377523689bd8468fed2f2dd180fc0560
> > > Author: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > > Date: Mon Apr 28 02:13:33 2008 -0700
> > >
> > > memory hotplug: allocate usemap on the section with pgdat
> >
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > We're seeing a boot failure on powerpc. git bisect points the problem
> > at this commit. However reverting just this one comitt doesn't fix the
> > regression. I also needed to revert
> > 04753278769f3b6c3b79a080edb52f21d83bf6e2 (memory hotplug: register
> > section/node id to free")
> >
> > Problem seen on power4, power5 and ps3.
>
> I don't see the problem on my power5 machine. Can you send the
> config ? Is CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled ?
>
> Please let me know.
I heard sparc has the similar regression.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120953950332044&w=2
If Kame-san's temporary patch fixes your problems, its cause may be same.
Thanks.
--
Yasunori Goto
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-03 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-30 6:12 sparc64 bootup regression David Miller
2008-04-30 6:38 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-30 6:46 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-04-30 7:15 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-04-30 7:25 ` David Miller
2008-04-30 7:33 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-04-30 12:53 ` Yasunori Goto
2008-06-03 22:14 ` David Miller
2008-06-04 5:05 ` Yasunori Goto
2008-04-30 7:30 ` Heiko Carstens
2008-04-30 7:44 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-04-30 7:45 ` Heiko Carstens
2008-04-30 7:19 ` David Miller
2008-05-07 22:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-05-07 22:25 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 22:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-05-07 22:46 ` David Miller
2008-05-01 5:13 ` powerpc boot regression Tony Breeds
2008-05-01 14:51 ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-05-01 19:01 ` Geoff Levand
2008-05-01 23:07 ` Tony Breeds
2008-05-03 12:05 ` Yasunori Goto [this message]
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