Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754567AbYAWOme (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:42:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751975AbYAWOm1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:42:27 -0500 Received: from gir.skynet.ie ([193.1.99.77]:35693 "EHLO gir.skynet.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751599AbYAWOm0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:42:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:42:23 +0000 From: Mel Gorman To: Olaf Hering Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, Linux MM , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , hanth Aravamudan , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix boot problem in situations where the boot CPU is running on a memoryless node Message-ID: <20080123144222.GA20156@csn.ul.ie> References: <20080118225713.GA31128@aepfle.de> <20080122195448.GA15567@csn.ul.ie> <20080122214505.GA15674@aepfle.de> <20080123075821.GA17713@aepfle.de> <20080123105044.GD21455@csn.ul.ie> <20080123121459.GA18631@aepfle.de> <20080123125236.GA18876@aepfle.de> <20080123135513.GA14175@csn.ul.ie> <20080123142759.GB19161@aepfle.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080123142759.GB19161@aepfle.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1158 Lines: 26 On (23/01/08 15:27), Olaf Hering didst pronounce: > On Wed, Jan 23, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > This patch in combination with a partial revert of commit > > 04231b3002ac53f8a64a7bd142fde3fa4b6808c6 fixes a regression between 2.6.23 > > and 2.6.24-rc8 where a PPC64 machine with all CPUS on a memoryless node fails > > to boot. If approved by the SLAB maintainers, it should be merged for 2.6.24. > > This change alone does not help, its not the version I tested. > Will all the changes below go into 2.6.24 as well, in a seperate patch? > > - for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY) { > + for_each_online_node(node) { Those changes are already in a separate patch and have been sent. I don't see it in git yet but it should be on the way. -- 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/