Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc7-git2 : crash in kmem_list3_init()

From: "Sachin P. Sant" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:52:35 +0530

Mel Gorman wrote:
>
> Well, the machine must have started with some kernel. What mainline
> version does that correspond to and can you bisect it?
>   
The last booted kernel was a 2.6.25 based kernel. I am trying to find out
the last good kernel.org kernel. I should have that information by tomorrow.

> What is the base page size of the test kernel - 4K or 64K? Depending on
> which one it is, the start of node 1 may not be MAX_ORDER-aligned, gets
> overlapped with node-0 and goes downhill from there.
>   
The kernel is configured with 64K pages.

Thanks
-Sachin

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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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