On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 09:14 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Dave Hansen writes:
> > This patch ensures that we do not touch bootmem for any node which
> > has not been initialized.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> So, should I be sending this to Linus for 2.6.28?
Yes, th
Paul Mackerras wrote:
Dave Hansen writes:
This patch ensures that we do not touch bootmem for any node which
has not been initialized.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
So, should I be sending this to Linus for 2.6.28?
I notice you have added a dbg() call. For a 2.6.28
Dave Hansen writes:
> This patch ensures that we do not touch bootmem for any node which
> has not been initialized.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
So, should I be sending this to Linus for 2.6.28?
I notice you have added a dbg() call. For a 2.6.28 patch I'd somewhat
prefer
careful_allocation() was calling into the bootemem allocator for
nodes which had not been fully initialized and caused a previous
bug. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/10528/ So, I merged a
few broken out loops in do_init_bootmem() to fix it. That changed
the code ordering.
I think this bug i