Re: [PATCH] x86: Make NUMA on 32-bit depend on BROKEN

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Tuesday, 11 of November 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> 
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > Subject: x86: Make NUMA on 32-bit depend on BROKEN
> > 
> > While investigating the failure of hibernation on 32-bit x86 with 
> > CONFIG_NUMA set, as described in this message 
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122634118116226&w=4 I asked some 
> > people for help and I was told that it wasn't really worth the 
> > effort, because CONFIG_NUMA was generally broken on 32-bit x86 
> > systems and it shouldn't be used in such configs.  For this reason, 
> > make CONFIG_NUMA depend on BROKEN instead of EXPERIMENTAL on x86-32.
> 
> Actually, it works just fine on a wide range of 32-bit systems that i 
> have, so NAK.
> 
> Hibernation might not work but that's i believe a NUMA<->HIBERNATION 
> interaction issue, we need to fix that. Regular system bootup and 
> stress-tests work just fine.

OK, so it seems I'll have to find out what exactly happens. :-(

Thanks,
Rafael