Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:07:26 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: colpatch@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: node_online_map patch kills x86_64
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:16:56PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> Backing out the x86_64 specific bits of the numnodes -> node_online_map
> patch and the generic bits from wli, kills my machine at boot.
> It hits the early_idt_handler and dies straight away.  What would help
> to debug this thing?

The only part of this I'm responsible for is converting build_zonelists()
to pass its nodemask argument by reference to address a livelock. I feel
your pain and if not otherwise occupied I would help fix your problem
right away.


-- wli
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