From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755464AbYDCKt3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 06:49:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753629AbYDCKtV (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 06:49:21 -0400 Received: from e28smtp01.in.ibm.com ([59.145.155.1]:39007 "EHLO e28smtp01.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753402AbYDCKtU (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 06:49:20 -0400 Message-ID: <47F4B625.7030007@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:19:09 +0530 From: Kamalesh Babulal User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14ubu (X11/20080306) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yinghai Lu CC: Andrew Morton , Yinghai Lu , Ingo Molnar , Badari Pulavarty , michael@ellerman.id.au, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Balbir Singh , kernel list Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: make mem_map allocation continuous v2. References: <200804021525.48799.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <20080402155247.5e746be7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <86802c440804021744m7c6e3d94vcb6af3ebcaa71b5b@mail.gmail.com> <200804021830.24563.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <20080402192223.5e8754a0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <86802c440804022116j2a8fb745pf734f61542a8e287@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86802c440804022116j2a8fb745pf734f61542a8e287@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:30:24 -0700 Yinghai Lu wrote: >> >> > v2 replace: >> > [PATCH] mm: make mem_map allocation continuous. >> > [PATCH] mm: allocate section_map for sparse_init >> > [PATCH] mm: allocate usemap at first instead of mem_map in sparse_init >> > >> >> err, no. >> >> >> > >> > diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c >> > index f6a43c0..2881222 100644 >> > --- a/mm/sparse.c >> > +++ b/mm/sparse.c >> >> Sorry, but I'd rather not do it this way. We presently have this: >> > > it replaces > >> mm-make-mem_map-allocation-continuous.patch >> mm-make-mem_map-allocation-continuous-checkpatch-fixes.patch >> mm-allocate-section_map-for-sparse_init.patch >> mm-allocate-section_map-for-sparse_init-update.patch >> mm-allocate-section_map-for-sparse_init-update-fix.patch >> mm-allocate-section_map-for-sparse_init-powerpc-fix.patch > > others still needed > > so mm-make-mem-map-allocation-continuous.patch will not break powerpc and ia64 > > YH Hi, Thanks, the patch fixes the issue. I am able to bootup without the kernel panic. Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal -- Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal, Linux Technology Center, IBM, ISTL.