Bug: early_pfn_in_nid() called when not early

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Thu Dec 14 10:58:53 EST 2006


Mike Kravetz writes:

> Thanks for the debug work!  Just curious if you really need
> CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES defined for your platform?  Can you get
> those types of memory layouts?  If not, an easy/immediate fix for you
> might be to simply turn off the option.

We really need CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for pSeries.  Since we
can build a single kernel binary that runs on both Cell and pSeries,
the Cell code needs to be able to work with that option turned on.

Paul.



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