From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] break out zone free list initialization From: Dave Hansen In-Reply-To: <20040805012424.7da14c83.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1091034585.2871.142.camel@nighthawk> <20040805012424.7da14c83.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1091727817.27397.8123.camel@nighthawk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:43:37 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-ID: On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 01:24, Andrew Morton wrote: > Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > The following patch removes the individual free area initialization from > > free_area_init_core(), and puts it in a new function > > zone_init_free_lists(). It also creates pages_to_bitmap_size(), which > > is then used in zone_init_free_lists() as well as several times in my > > free area bitmap resizing patch. > > This causes my very ordinary p4 testbox to crash very early in boot. It's > quite pretty, with nice colourful stripes of blinking text on the display. Just for a sanity check: are there other machines that it booted on without any problems for you? I'll go steal someone's P4 desktop and retest. -- Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org