Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751524AbWCHXqL (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:46:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751527AbWCHXqL (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:46:11 -0500 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:19602 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751524AbWCHXqK (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:46:10 -0500 Subject: Re: State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystems for 2.6.16-rc5 From: Dave Hansen To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds , gregkh@suse.de, bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, Neil Brown , mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz, Nathan Scott In-Reply-To: <20060308152928.21afef81.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060306223545.GA20885@kroah.com> <20060308222652.GR4006@stusta.de> <20060308225029.GA26117@suse.de> <20060308152928.21afef81.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:45:51 -0800 Message-Id: <1141861551.8599.112.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1101 Lines: 27 On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 15:29 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > - It would be nice to get Martin MOKREJ > 's full 16GB recognised again. Dave > Hansen is working on that. Martin, please step in here if your problem has come back... After Martin applied my debugging patch, the problem went away. Last I heard, he was going to boot back into a kernel without my patch to see if it stayed fixed. My guess is that it is be a screwy BIOS that is causing the problem intermittently. Otherwise, I can't imagine how some printks could affect the problem. It's not like this is happening in code where there are SMP races. I also checked around the office a bit to see if anyone else was having memory detection issues on large memory x86 machines. No luck. I'd put this into the "unreproducible" bucket for now. -- Dave - 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/