Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751446AbWETAf3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 May 2006 20:35:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751448AbWETAf3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 May 2006 20:35:29 -0400 Received: from holly.csn.ul.ie ([193.1.99.76]:63417 "EHLO holly.csn.ul.ie") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751446AbWETAf2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 May 2006 20:35:28 -0400 Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 01:35:25 +0100 (IST) From: Mel Gorman X-X-Sender: mel@skynet.skynet.ie To: Andrew Morton Cc: evil@g-house.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org Subject: Re: SCSI ABORT with 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 In-Reply-To: <20060519163038.7236c8e3.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <62331.192.18.1.5.1148071784.squirrel@housecafe.dyndns.org> <20060519141032.23de6eee.akpm@osdl.org> <20060519225746.GA11883@skynet.ie> <20060519163038.7236c8e3.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1577 Lines: 42 On Fri, 19 May 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > mel@csn.ul.ie (Mel Gorman) wrote: >> >> I am struggling to see how the alignment patches or >> arch-independent-zone-sizing would clobber the mapping of the ACPI table :( > > hm. Well something did it ;) > Obviously. One option is to back out have-x86_64-use-add_active_range-and-free_area_init_nodes.patch and see what happens on Christian's machine. >> > I also managed to provoke "Too many memory regions, >> > truncating" out of it. >> > >> >> "Too many memory regions, truncating" is of concern because memory will be >> effectively lost. Is this on x86_64 as well? If so, I need to submit a >> patch that sets CONFIG_MAX_ACTIVE_REGIONS to 128 on x86_64 which is the >> same value of E820MAX. This is similar to what PPC64 does for LMB regions >> (see MAX_ACTIVE_REGIONS in arch/powerpc/Kconfig for example). If it's not >> x86_64, what arch does it occur on? > > Yes, it's x86_64. It kind of went away though. I seem to have been > finding various .config combinations which cause x86_64 to die horridly - > that was one. > Can you post up some of the configs and I'll see can I reproduce it locally please? -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab - 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/