Re: [PATCH] mm,x86: initialize high mem before free_all_bootmem()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Dec 06 2011 - 03:27:42 EST



* Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Patch fixes boot crash with my previous patch "mm,x86: remove
> debug_pagealloc_enabled" applied:

Great, thanks - i've started testing of your pagealloc
restoration patch again.

> Would be good to apply this patch before "mm,x86: remove
> debug_pagealloc_enabled" to prevent problem be possibly
> observable during bisection.

Yep, applied them in that order.

The thing is, the pagealloc bug you fixed basically kept
pagealloc debugging essentially disabled for a really long time,
correct? So i'd expect there to be quite a few latent problems -
i'll give it some more testing before pushing out the result.

Thanks,

Ingo
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