[stable] 16G related patches for stable kernel 2.6.27

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Nov 5 09:07:43 EST 2008


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:56:56PM -0500, Jon Tollefson wrote:
> Please consider the following patches for the 2.6.27 stable tree.
> 
> The first two allow a powerpc machine with more then 2 numa nodes
> to boot when 16G pages are enabled.  The third one allows a powerpc
> machine to boot if using 16G pages and the mem= boot param.
> 
> thanks,
> Jon
> 
> 
> powerpc: Reserve in bootmem lmb reserved regions that cross NUMA nodes
>     commit 8f64e1f2d1e09267ac926e15090fd505c1c0cbcb
> powerpc/numa: Make memory reserve code more robust
>     commit e81703724a966120ace6504c993bda9e084cbf3e
> powerpc: Don't use a 16G page if beyond mem= limits
>     commit 4792adbac9eb41cea77a45ab76258ea10d411173

I've queued up all of these.

thanks,

greg k-h



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