ppc64 oops..

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Nov 15 19:07:12 EST 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:50 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> 1) CONFIG_NUMA
> 2) numa=off on the command line

In fact, you don't need that, CONFIG_NUMA is enough ... provided that it
builds at all, which needs CONFIG_SPARSEMEM (my previous test didn't
show the bug because the kernel build acutally failed due to the lack of
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM and I didn't notice).

I suppose we shoud fix Kconfig there ...In fact, sparsemem makes sense
to use on a G5 even without CONFIG_NUMA, provided that I add proper
support, so that the IO hole doesn't get struct page created ... 

I'll try to come up with a fix tomorrow, in the meantime, disable
CONFIG_NUMA.

Ben.





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