pseries (power3) boot hang (pageblock_nr_pages==0)

[Mel Gorman]

On (26/11/07 13:35), Will Schmidt didst pronounce:
> 
> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 22:03 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On (21/11/07 15:55), Will Schmidt didst pronounce:
> > > Hi Folks, 
> > > 
> > > I imagine this would be properly fixed with something similar to the
> > > change for iSeries.  
> > 
> > Have you tried with the patch that fixed the iSeries boot problem?
> > Thanks for tracking down the problem to such a specific place.
> 
> I had not, but gave this patch a spin this morning, and it does the
> job.  :-)  

Brilliant.

> I was thinking (without really looking at it), that the
> iseries fix was in platform specific code.   Silly me. :-)
> 
> So for the record, this patch also fixes power3 pSeries systems.
> 
> fwiw:
> Tested-By:  Will Schmidt <will_schmidt at vnet.ibm.com>
> 

Thanks a lot for reporting and testing Will.

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab