Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix boot problem in situations where the boot CPU is running on a memoryless node

From: Mel Gorman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:42:23 +0000

On (23/01/08 15:27), Olaf Hering didst pronounce:
> On Wed, Jan 23, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 
> > This patch in combination with a partial revert of commit
> > 04231b3002ac53f8a64a7bd142fde3fa4b6808c6 fixes a regression between 2.6.23
> > and 2.6.24-rc8 where a PPC64 machine with all CPUS on a memoryless node fails
> > to boot. If approved by the SLAB maintainers, it should be merged for 2.6.24.
> 
> This change alone does not help, its not the version I tested.
> Will all the changes below go into 2.6.24 as well, in a seperate patch?
> 
> -       for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY) {
> +       for_each_online_node(node) {

Those changes are already in a separate patch and have been sent. I don't
see it in git yet but it should be on the way.

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab