Re: [GIT PULL] parisc fixes for 2.6.39-rc5

From: James Bottomley
Date: Wed Apr 27 2011 - 16:55:22 EST


On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 22:36 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 22:18, James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > These two fixes contain the agreed fix for our slub panic (agreed with
> > the mm folks that we'll define SLUB broken in the !NUMA && DISCONTIGMEM
> > case, which should fix m86k as well) and another buglet that turned up
> > examining the parisc discontigmem code.
>
> Do we still need to mark SLUB broken?
> On m68k, the issue seems to have been fixed by setting the N_NORMAL_MEMORY flag
> (pull request scheduled after one more linux-next build cycle).
>
> Or do you plan to unmark it broken once every affected arch sets the
> N_NORMAL_MEMORY flag?

Yes ... simply doing N_NORMAL_MEMORY doesn't fix parisc to not oops.

James


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