[BUG] 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 kernel panic while bootup on powerpc ()

Kamalesh Babulal kamalesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Mar 5 13:28:07 EST 2008


Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> I think this is the correct fix.
>>
>> The NUMA fallback logic should be passing local_flags to kmem_get_pages() 
>> and not simply the flags.
>>
>> Maybe a stable candidate since we are now simply 
>> passing on flags to the page allocator on the fallback path.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter at sgi.com>
> 
> Indeed, good catch. I spotted the same thing just few seconds ago.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg at cs.helsinki.fi>
> 
> Was it you Kamalesh that reported this? Can you please re-test?

Thanks the patch fixes the kernel bug.

Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM, ISTL.



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