Re: Bootmem allocator broken

[Alexander Beregalov]

2008/8/15 David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:11:19 -0400 (EDT)
>
> [ Adding Alexander back to the CC: as he is seeing this same
>  exact bug too, please keep him in the loop for testing. ]

>> This patch fixes it (kernels 2.6.27-rc2 and 2.6.27-rc3 boot ok after the
>> patch). Johannes, please review the patch and submit it to Linus.
>>
>> With the patch it tries to continue at the end of previous allocation only
>> if the previous allocation ended in the middle of the page.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>


It is working! Thanks a lot David and Mikulas!

alexb@sparky ~ $ zgrep LOCKDEP /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP=y
alexb@sparky ~ $ uname -a
Linux sparky 2.6.27-rc3-00171-gb635ace-dirty #3 PREEMPT Fri Aug 15
14:52:40 MSD 2008 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc IIi (Sabre) GNU/Linux
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