From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@saeurebad.de>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 9a2d43b: __alloc_bootmem_core(): zero-sized request
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:58:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86802c440808240158qe35c6ddrc2774d19dc78a96@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0808240143y10b143c6s6f2b6753490d652f@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote:
dy...
>
> Yes, the v2.6.27-rc4 boots fine. I was wondering if you knew that this
> problem had occurred in the past (and if so, which commits I can
> cherry-pick to fix it). But I guess there is not much to do. It is
> also hard to test this same config with newer kernels, because
> something in the Kconfig changed in an incompatible way (e.g. NUMAQ
> setting changes when I change kernel versions).
a lot of changes on that section code in 2.6.27.
and according to old code, you are not supposed to use numaq enabled
kernel on non-numaq HW.
but from 2.6.27-rc1 you could do that. we made the code probe the
subarch and will fall back to default or bigsmp
YH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-24 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-22 19:24 Vegard Nossum
2008-08-22 19:54 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-23 7:12 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-08-24 7:58 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-24 8:22 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-24 8:43 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-24 8:58 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2008-08-24 8:23 ` Vegard Nossum
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