[PATCH] boot failures on numa if no memory on node
Mike Kravetz
kravetz at us.ibm.com
Thu Dec 8 08:07:23 EST 2005
This bug exists in the current code and prevents machines from booting
with numa enabled if there is a node that does not contain memory.
Workaround is to boot with 'numa=off'. Looks like a simple type.
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz at us.ibm.com>
diff -Naupr linux-2.6.15-rc5-git1/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c linux-2.6.15-rc5-git1.work/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
--- linux-2.6.15-rc5-git1/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c 2005-12-04 05:10:42.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc5-git1.work/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c 2005-12-07 20:49:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ void __init get_region(unsigned int nid,
/* We didnt find a matching region, return start/end as 0 */
if (*start_pfn == -1UL)
- start_pfn = 0;
+ *start_pfn = 0;
}
static inline void map_cpu_to_node(int cpu, int node)
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