Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757384AbXFFQsP (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:48:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753318AbXFFQr7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:47:59 -0400 Received: from calculon.skynet.ie ([193.1.99.88]:46945 "EHLO calculon.skynet.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753103AbXFFQr7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:47:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:47:56 +0100 To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Cedric Le Goater , Michal Piotrowski , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , aaw@google.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Message-ID: <20070606164755.GA14278@skynet.ie> References: <20070606020737.4663d686.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4666ABD4.8050402@fr.ibm.com> <4666D050.7010603@googlemail.com> <4666DA55.5090405@fr.ibm.com> <20070606162649.GA9932@skynet.ie> <20070606163538.GN6909@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070606163538.GN6909@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: mel@skynet.ie (Mel Gorman) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1220 Lines: 28 On (06/06/07 09:35), William Lee Irwin III didst pronounce: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:26:49PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > I do not believe this is Nick's problem. I encountered the same issue and > > the bisect ended up here; > > # BISECT HERE > > mm-variable-length-argument-support.patch > > mm-variable-length-argument-support-fix.patch > > # BISECT BAD > > Reverting those two patches boots ok on my standalone x86 laptop. > > Patch authors cc'd. I have not read the patches yet to see what might > > be the problem. > > I found this a while ago and peterz already has a tentative fix for it at > http://programming.kicks-ass.net/kernel-patches/max_arg_pages/move_anon_vma.patch > I'm sure he himself will chime in with more/better code when he returns. > This patch also boots successfully on the machine. -- 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/