From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, haveblue@us.ibm.com,
kravetz@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SPARSEMEM + NUMA can't handle unaligned memory regions?
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 09:32:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44605396.40507@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060509070343.57853679F2@ozlabs.org>
Michael Ellerman wrote:
> I can't believe I'm the first person to see this, so I imagine I'm missing
> something. Perhaps it's only an issue on powerpc?
>
> I have a machine with some memory at 0, then a hole, and then some more memory
> which doesn't start on a section boundary. This is causing the following
> crash:
>
> add_region nid 1 start_pfn 0x77c0 pages 0x840
> add_region nid 1 start_pfn 0x0 pages 0x6000
Nasty, could you send me your full boot log and your config and I'll
have a look at it. I can say this code has been booted on a lot of
power boxes and I've never seen that before! :)
Anyhow, will take a look and see if we can avoid iterating over the area
to find it.
-apw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-09 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-09 7:03 Michael Ellerman
2006-05-09 8:32 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2006-05-09 9:11 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-05-09 10:24 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-05-09 13:34 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-05-09 14:28 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-05-09 16:26 ` Dave Hansen
2006-05-09 16:31 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-05-10 6:06 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-05-10 10:51 ` [PATCH] sparsemem record nid during memory present Andy Whitcroft
2006-05-09 16:05 ` [PATCH] SPARSEMEM + NUMA can't handle unaligned memory regions? mike kravetz
2006-05-09 16:14 ` Andy Whitcroft
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