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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:37:50 -0800
From: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
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To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.24 git2/mm1: cpu_to_node mapping to non-existant nodes causing
 boot failure
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Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
>> On (19/02/08 08:12), Mike Travis didst pronounce:
>>
>>> Mike Travis wrote:
>>  > > Mel Gorman wrote:
>>  > >
>>  > >> If you send me patches to apply on top of 2.6.25-rc1, I'll give them a spin
>>  > >> on the machine in question. Reverting didn't work out very well as there are
>>  > >> too many collisions with patches that were applied later. I eventually got
>>  > >> the machine booting but it only succeeds because it only brings up one core
>>  > >> on each processor.  The patch, which is pretty brain damaged is below in case
>>  > >> it helps you guess what the real problem is. dmesg logs are attached of the
>>  > >> vanilla failure with acpi=debug and the log with the patch applied showing
>>  > >> "__cpu_up: bad cpu 1" and "__cpu_up: bad cpu3" (i.e. the second cores of
>>  > >> each machine).
>>  > >>
>>  > >
>>  > > This should completely undo the change to 16 bit apic ids until we can figure
>>  > > out the problem with the memory-less nodes.  I checked it on both the numa
>>  > > and non-numa x86_64 box.
>>  > >
>>  > > Thanks,
>>  > > Mike
>>  > >
>>  >
>>  > Hi Mel,
>>  >
>>  > Did you get a chance to try out this patch to see if it cleared up the problem
>>  > booting on your x86_64 numa box?
> 
> did it fail with x86.git#testing?
> 
> YH

Hi,

My problem is that I haven't been able to set up a NUMA box where some of the nodes
have no memory.  The one box we have, the serial port doesn't work and it's in a lab
far, far away.  Everything else, it works fine.

Mike
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