Re: 2.5.64bk5: X86_PC + HIGHMEM boot failure

Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:39:11 -0800


On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

>> I just verified that the problem also occurs with NUMA +
>> HIGHMEM_64GB (i.e., it is not limited to HIGHMEM_4GB).
>>
>> By the way, HIGHMEM_64GB without NUMA gets a lot father, but
>> still experiences memory corruption, probably same bug that caused me
>> to downgrade to HIGHMEM_4G months ago (i.e., probably not related to
>> this NUMA problem).

>Yeah, we really ought to fix that. This one?
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5

Yes. Thank you for doing such meticulous job of entering it
into bugmse.osdl.org.

[About the original problem of CONFIG_NUMA bombing out on my
384MB machine with a HIGHMEM4G kernel:]
>Right ... I think I have some more patches from Andy somewhere, though
>he may not have tested with 64Gb on his PC ... I'll go look, and send
>them to you if I have.

Great, although it will probably be several hours before I can
test any patches that you send me.

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