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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:47:41 -0500
From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
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Subject: Re: (not so much) Fun with THP
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 06:52:55PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:57:06 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:58:30PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > On the one F15 box I've dared enable THP with, it hasn't succeeded in
> > > booting (with or without KMS).  First it OOMed during lvm:
> > 
> > Sorry, for x86_32 there was some issue, below is all you need, thanks!
> 
> Thank you, I was missing the paravirt patch.

Thanks Chris, Andrea,

That explains a bug I've had users seeing which I cannot reproduce
(since I'm all on 64-bit...)

regards,
--Kyle