Re: x86_64: 2.6.14-rc4 swiotlb broken

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Oct 18 2005 - 10:48:47 EST




On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
>
> I just tried Yasunori-sans patch on our x460. It doesn't fix the problem.
> Attaching the dmesg capture. However, the patch to iterate over nodes and
> allocate bootmem works, and should work for ia64s, boxes with insufficient
> memory on node 0, nodes with just cpus etc. I have requested Alex to try this
> on the superdome (although the the use of swiotlb on superdomes seem to be
> optional). If this works on superdomes, then please apply. This has been
> tested on x460.

This version looks cleaner and smaller, and leaves the rest of the bootmem
code alone.

I vote for this one, assuming everybody who can test is happy.

Linus
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