Re: [PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (WasRe: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1)

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Jan 07 2008 - 17:24:38 EST


On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:50:49 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:56:09 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > i'm also wondering - what would be the easiest way to integrate kexec
> > > into an automated test environment. If i have a bzImage kernel, is kexec
> > > still supposed to work? Could i for example do a reboot into a new
> > > (kexec-enabled) kernel via kexec in essence?
> >
> > My daily/nightly kernel test runs use kexec to boot the test kernel.
> > Well, did thru 2.6.24-rc6-git9, but they fail after that.
> > Hopefully this patch fixes things.
>
> The patch in question is not in mainline, it's in the mm branch of
> x86.git. So the problem in mainline is a different one. Could you
> bisect it please ?

Ugh. As happens during demos, this (kexec failure) won't happen for me
when I want it to. I'll keep an eye out for it...


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~Randy
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