Re: [PATCH] break out zone free list initialization

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Aug 05 2004 - 03:27:42 EST


Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The following patch removes the individual free area initialization from
> free_area_init_core(), and puts it in a new function
> zone_init_free_lists(). It also creates pages_to_bitmap_size(), which
> is then used in zone_init_free_lists() as well as several times in my
> free area bitmap resizing patch.

This causes my very ordinary p4 testbox to crash very early in boot. It's
quite pretty, with nice colourful stripes of blinking text on the display.

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