On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 09:53 -0400, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 17:18 -0400, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 12:38 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > (ccing Andy who did the work on the config stuff) > > > > > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > > > > > > > I tried to deselect SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. Kconfig's "def_bool=y" wouldn't > > > > let me :-(. After hacking the Kconfig and mm/sparse.c to allow that, > > > > boot hangs with no error messages shortly after "Built N zonelists..." > > > > message. > > > > > > I get a similar hang here and see the system looping in softirq / hrtimer > > > code. > > > > > > > Backed off to DISCONTIGMEM+VIRTUAL_MEMORY_MAP, and saw same hang as with > > > > (SPARSMEM && !SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP). > > > > > > So its not related to SPARSE VMEMMAP? General VMEMMAP issue on IA64? > > > > This hang is different from the one I see with SPARSE VMEMMAP -- no > > "Unable to handle kernel paging request..." message. Just hangs after > > "Built N zonelists..." and some message about "color" that I didn't > > capture. Next time [:-(]... > > The "color" message was actually: > > Console: colour dummy device 80x25 > > So, now I'm wondering if I'm hitting the "Regression in serial > console..." issue, and the system was actually booting--I just didn't > see any output. If so, the "Unable to handle kernel paging request..." > hang might well be a problem with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP... > After applying the hotfixes from Andrew's repository and the patches from the mailing lists listed below, I'm booting 23-rc1-mm1 with a zx1 specific config [on an sx1000]. Gotta run for a meeting, but I'll try generic kernel this pm. Then back to testing memoryless node patches, ... Other "hot fixes": 2 of Mel Gorman's patches to fix ia64 mmap corruption [mm list] Yasuaki Ishimatsu's assign irq vector fix [ia64 list] Kenji Kaneshige's "wrong access to vector" patch [ia64 list] Kame-san's sparsemem-vmemmap fix [lkml] Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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