Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932601AbWCHX6Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:58:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932616AbWCHX6Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:58:24 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:24247 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932601AbWCHX6X (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:58:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:52:47 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Dave Hansen Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, gregkh@suse.de, bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au, mmokrejs@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz, nathans@sgi.com Subject: Re: State of the Linux PCI and PCI Hotplug Subsystems for 2.6.16-rc5 Message-Id: <20060308155247.76a4fcc0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1141861551.8599.112.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060306223545.GA20885@kroah.com> <20060308222652.GR4006@stusta.de> <20060308225029.GA26117@suse.de> <20060308152928.21afef81.akpm@osdl.org> <1141861551.8599.112.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1218 Lines: 31 Dave Hansen wrote: > > 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. OK, thanks Dave. > I'd put this into the "unreproducible" bucket for now. IBM must make big buckets. - 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/