On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 10:56:10AM +0200, Petr Tesarik wrote:
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> Russ Anderson wrote:
> > [patch] fix bootmem regression on Altix
> >
> > A recent change prevents SGI Altix from booting.
> > This patch fixes the problem.
> >
> > The regresson was introduced in commit 434d53b00d6bb7be0a1d3dcc0d0d5df6c042e164
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> Could we get this into mainline?
Which mainline tree? Tony pushed the patch to Linus back on 4/24
and I see it in Linus' tree.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=472613b961affef0c73f1c797993678312e7c666
> My Altix box won't boot without this
> patch either and applying it on top of all trees after the
> above-mentioned commit is annoying when bisecting. :(
>
> Anyway, thank you for your patch, Russ!
>
> Petr Tesarik
>
> > Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@xxxxxxx)
> >
> > ---
> > kernel/sched.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > Index: test/kernel/sched.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- test.orig/kernel/sched.c 2008-04-23 16:00:58.000000000 -0500
> > +++ test/kernel/sched.c 2008-04-23 16:01:33.047453963 -0500
> > @@ -8127,7 +8127,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
> > * we use alloc_bootmem().
> > */
> > if (alloc_size) {
> > - ptr = (unsigned long)alloc_bootmem_low(alloc_size);
> > + ptr = (unsigned long)alloc_bootmem(alloc_size);
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
> > init_task_group.se = (struct sched_entity **)ptr;
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Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@xxxxxxx
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