Re: Regression in 543cea9a - was: Re: Kernel problem on rx2800 i2

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Hi!

On 6/25/19 8:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 6/21/19 10:08 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> recent testing of a Debian v4.19.37 kernel showed a problem on my rx2800
>> i2 happening during kernel boot:
>> (...)
>> [1]:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=543cea9accd9804307541cb93d3ed7ec94b07237
> 
> Do you have any idea what could be the reason for the issue introduced
> by your above commit? James Clarke has guess that it might be GFP_DMA32
> which isn't being set properly anymore for the affected machines.
> 
> Do you think we could test a kernel which just sets the flag unconditionally
> to see whether this is the problem that causes the issues on these machines?

Just as a heads-up: This issue has magically fixed itself and a current kernel
with some additional minor fixes applied boots fine on these machines again [1].

Adrian

> [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m=161651097316856&w=2

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