Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757162Ab2JXQsS (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:48:18 -0400 Received: from va3ehsobe002.messaging.microsoft.com ([216.32.180.12]:45747 "EHLO va3outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753075Ab2JXQsQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:48:16 -0400 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:163.181.249.108;KIP:(null);UIP:(null);IPV:NLI;H:ausb3twp01.amd.com;RD:none;EFVD:NLI X-SpamScore: -4 X-BigFish: VPS-4(zz98dI9371I1432I4015Izz1202h1d1ah1d2ahzz8275bh8275dhz2dh668h839h944hd25hd2bhf0ah1220h1288h12a5h12a9h12bdh137ah13b6h1441h1504h1537h153bh1155h) X-WSS-ID: 0MCEPCA-01-1UA-02 X-M-MSG: Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:48:08 -0500 From: Jacob Shin To: Yinghai Lu , "H. Peter Anvin" CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Tom Rini , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: BUG: 1bbbbe7 (x86: Exclude E820_RESERVED regions...) PANIC on boot Message-ID: <20121024164808.GA11779@jshin-Toonie> References: <20121022144020.GA14425@jshin-Toonie> <20121022183858.GA31185@jshin-Toonie> <5085ABEF.3060502@linux.intel.com> <5085B207.5010907@linux.intel.com> <5085BA4A.30800@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-OriginatorOrg: amd.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1177 Lines: 43 On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 04:35:18PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:27 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> > >> We never know that bios guys will not let bios produce crazy e820 map. > >> > > > > Yeah, well, that just *will* happen... that's a given. > > > > We can trim those ranges, though. Who cares if we lose some RAM. > > > > please check attached two patches that handle partial pages for 3.7. > > and you still need patch in > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/24/469 > > to address early page table size calculation problem for Tom Rini Acked-by: Jacob Shin hpa, we need this patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/24/469 and the above 2 from Yinghai to handle corner case E820 layouts. I got an email from Greg KH that 1bbbbe779aabe1f0768c2bf8f8c0a5583679b54a is queued for stable, so these need to go to stable as well. Thanks, -Jacob > > Thanks > > Yinghai -- 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/