Re: [Powerpc/SLQB] Next June 06 : BUG during scsi initialization

2009-06-07 Thread Pekka J Enberg
Hi Sachin, On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Sachin Sant wrote: > I can still recreate this bug on a Power 6 hardware with today's next tree. > I can recreate this problem at will. > Let me know if i can help in debugging this problem. Can you please reproduce the issue with this debugging patch applied and p

Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 kernel panic while bootup on powerpc ()

2008-03-04 Thread Pekka J Enberg
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Slab allocations should never be passed these flags since the slabs do > their own thing there. > > The following patch would clear these in slub: Here's the same fix for SLAB: diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 473e6c2..c6dbf7e 100644 --- a

Re: [PATCH] Fix boot problem in situations where the boot CPU is running on a memoryless node

2008-01-23 Thread Pekka J Enberg
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > As far as I can tell, there are two ways to fix this: [snip] > (2) initialize cache_cache.nodelists with initmem_list3 equivalents > for *each node hat has normal memory* An untested patch follows: --- mm/slab

Re: [PATCH] Fix boot problem in situations where the boot CPU is running on a memoryless node

2008-01-23 Thread Pekka J Enberg
Hi, On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Mel Gorman wrote: > Applied in combination with the N_NORMAL_MEMORY revert and it fails to > boot. Console is as follows; Thanks for testing! On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Mel Gorman wrote: > [c05c3b40] c00dadb4 .cache_grow+0x7c/0x338 > [c05c3c00] c00

Re: [PATCH] Fix boot problem in situations where the boot CPU is running on a memoryless node

2008-01-23 Thread Pekka J Enberg
Hi, On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > > I still think Christoph's kmem_getpages() patch is correct (to fix > > cache_grow() oops) but I overlooked the fact that none the callers of > > cache_alloc_node() deal with bootstrapping (with the exception of

Re: [PATCH] Fix boot problem in situations where the boot CPU is running on a memoryless node

2008-01-23 Thread Pekka J Enberg
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > I still think Christoph's kmem_getpages() patch is correct (to fix > cache_grow() oops) but I overlooked the fact that none the callers of > cache_alloc_node() deal with bootstrapping (with the exception of > __cache_alloc_node(

Re: [PATCH] Fix boot problem in situations where the boot CPU is running on a memoryless node

2008-01-23 Thread Pekka J Enberg
Hi Mel, On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Mel Gorman wrote: > diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff > linux-2.6.24-rc8-005-revert-memoryless-slab/mm/slab.c > linux-2.6.24-rc8-010_handle_missing_l3/mm/slab.c > --- linux-2.6.24-rc8-005-revert-memoryless-slab/mm/slab.c 2008-01-22 > 17:46:32.