Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750815AbVJRPsV (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:48:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750816AbVJRPsV (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:48:21 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:32979 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750815AbVJRPsV (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:48:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:48:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai cc: Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, tglx@linutronix.de, shai@scalex86.org Subject: Re: x86_64: 2.6.14-rc4 swiotlb broken In-Reply-To: <20051018001620.GD8932@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20051017093654.GA7652@localhost.localdomain> <200510171153.56063.ak@suse.de> <20051017153020.GB7652@localhost.localdomain> <200510171743.47926.ak@suse.de> <20051017134401.3b0d861d.akpm@osdl.org> <20051018001620.GD8932@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 950 Lines: 23 On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > > I just tried Yasunori-sans patch on our x460. It doesn't fix the problem. > Attaching the dmesg capture. However, the patch to iterate over nodes and > allocate bootmem works, and should work for ia64s, boxes with insufficient > memory on node 0, nodes with just cpus etc. I have requested Alex to try this > on the superdome (although the the use of swiotlb on superdomes seem to be > optional). If this works on superdomes, then please apply. This has been > tested on x460. This version looks cleaner and smaller, and leaves the rest of the bootmem code alone. I vote for this one, assuming everybody who can test is happy. Linus - 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/