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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:41:29 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [BUG] x86: bootmem broken on SGI UV
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* Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> 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.

	Ingo