Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756669AbYAGQYx (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:24:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755369AbYAGQYp (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:24:45 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:56081 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754992AbYAGQYo (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:24:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:22:37 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Dhaval Giani , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (Was Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1) Message-Id: <20080107082237.595b266a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20080107145609.GA26652@elte.hu> References: <20071222233056.d652743e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080107135038.GA19568@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080107145609.GA26652@elte.hu> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1394 Lines: 41 On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:56:09 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > > > > Hi Andrew, Ingo, Thomas, Peter, > > > > > > x86: revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem > > > > > > The patch caused a failure while booting a kexec kernel. > > > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/7/42 has the bisect details.) > > > > > > The following patch reverts it. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani > > > > Thanks for tracking this down. I'll pull the patch from the x86 git > > tree as well. > > Dhaval, how about the other problem you had - do you have any guess > what it might be related to? > > i'm also wondering - what would be the easiest way to integrate kexec > into an automated test environment. If i have a bzImage kernel, is kexec > still supposed to work? Could i for example do a reboot into a new > (kexec-enabled) kernel via kexec in essence? My daily/nightly kernel test runs use kexec to boot the test kernel. Well, did thru 2.6.24-rc6-git9, but they fail after that. Hopefully this patch fixes things. --- ~Randy -- 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/