Re: node_online_map patch kills x86_64

From: Chris Wright
Date: Tue Jan 11 2005 - 19:45:55 EST


* William Lee Irwin III (wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:16:56PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> > Backing out the x86_64 specific bits of the numnodes -> node_online_map
> > patch and the generic bits from wli, kills my machine at boot.
> > It hits the early_idt_handler and dies straight away. What would help
> > to debug this thing?
>
> The only part of this I'm responsible for is converting build_zonelists()
> to pass its nodemask argument by reference to address a livelock. I feel
> your pain and if not otherwise occupied I would help fix your problem
> right away.

Thanks wli. Seems Andi understands the issue despite my unintelligible
bug report ;-)

thanks,
-chris
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