Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755483AbaA1W4R (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:56:17 -0500 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:23743 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754574AbaA1W4Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:56:16 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.95,739,1384329600"; d="scan'208";a="474028940" Message-ID: <52E83577.6040504@intel.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:55:51 -0800 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yinghai Lu CC: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Russell King - ARM Linux , Kevin Hilman , Olof Johansson , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Santosh Shilimkar , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] memblock: Add limit checking to memblock_virt_alloc References: <1390946665-2967-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <52E82A40.3040104@intel.com> In-Reply-To: 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 On 01/28/2014 02:47 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: >> On 01/28/2014 02:04 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: >>> In original bootmem wrapper for memblock, we have limit checking. >>> >>> Add it to memblock_virt_alloc, to address arm and x86 booting crash. >>> >> Do you have a git tree or cumulative set of patches that you'd like us >> to all test? I'm happy to boot it on my system, I just want to make >> sure I've got the same set that you're testing. > > This one should only affect on arm and x86 the 32 bit kernel with more > then 4G RAM. OK, let me rephrase. Does anyone want me to test this on a 1TB 64-bit x86 system? If yes, please tell me which patches you want me to test, and on top of which kernel. I have three patches in this area, I think, but I don't want to waste my time testing and reporting the wrong thing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/