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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: make expand_downwards symmetrical to expand_upwards
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:33:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303507985.2590.47.camel@mulgrave.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303411537.9048.3583.camel@nimitz>

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 11:45 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 13:33 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2008-08/msg00154.html
> > 

By the way, this reference is actively wrong for parisc (having just
debugged the problem).  The basic issue is that until we start paging,
we have the kernel and some memory beyond it barely covered with the pg0
page table set up in head.S  On our systems, that extends out to 16MB.
SPARSEMEM is much more bootmem resource greedy than DISCONTIGMEM, so if
we actually call sparse_init() before we have the page tables set up, we
fall off the end of our 16MB mapping and go boom.  For us, therefore, we
can't call sparse_init() until we have our proper page tables in place.

James


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-22 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-15 13:51 [PATCH] " Michal Hocko
2011-04-18  3:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-04-18 10:01   ` [PATCH v2] " Michal Hocko
2011-04-18 20:56     ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]       ` <20110419091022.GA21689@tiehlicka.suse.cz>
2011-04-19 11:09         ` [PATCH followup] mm: get rid of CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP || CONFIG_IA64 Michal Hocko
2011-04-20  0:33           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-20  6:59             ` Michal Hocko
2011-04-20  7:08               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-26  7:59           ` Michal Hocko
2011-04-19 11:10       ` [PATCH v3] mm: make expand_downwards symmetrical to expand_upwards Michal Hocko
2011-04-19 15:46         ` James Bottomley
2011-04-19 16:06           ` [PATCH v3] mm: make expand_downwards symmetrical to John David Anglin
2011-04-19 16:59             ` James Bottomley
2011-04-19 16:07           ` [PATCH v3] mm: make expand_downwards symmetrical to expand_upwards James Bottomley
2011-04-19 17:05           ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-19 17:11             ` James Bottomley
2011-04-19 17:15               ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-19 17:48                 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-19 18:10                   ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-19 18:20                     ` James Bottomley
2011-04-19 18:35                       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-19 19:49                         ` James Bottomley
2011-04-19 20:56                           ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-19 21:21                             ` James Bottomley
2011-04-19 21:39                               ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-19 21:48                                 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-19 21:58                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-20  1:23                                     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-20  2:48                                       ` James Bottomley
2011-04-20  2:57                                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-20 13:50                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-21 13:32                                             ` Tejun Heo
2011-04-20  5:53                                       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-20  7:15                                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-20  7:34                                           ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-20  8:40                                             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-20 16:32                                               ` James Bottomley
2011-04-20 16:50                                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-20 18:09                                                   ` James Bottomley
2011-04-20 21:18                                                 ` David Rientjes
2011-04-20 22:15                                                   ` James Bottomley
2011-04-20 23:12                                                     ` David Rientjes
2011-04-21 13:16                                                       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-21 16:37                                                         ` James Bottomley
2011-04-21 18:33                                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-21 18:45                                                             ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-22 18:19                                                               ` James Bottomley
2011-04-22 20:24                                                                 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-22 20:35                                                                   ` James Bottomley
2011-04-22 21:33                                                               ` James Bottomley [this message]
2011-04-23 18:34                                                                 ` [PATCH] convert parisc to sparsemem (was Re: [PATCH v3] mm: make expand_downwards symmetrical to expand_upwards) James Bottomley
2011-04-24 16:27                                                                   ` John David Anglin
2011-04-26  0:32                                                                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-27 16:36                                                                   ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-21 20:05                                                             ` [PATCH v3] mm: make expand_downwards symmetrical to expand_upwards James Bottomley
2011-04-21 21:07                                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-21 21:22                                                                 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-21 19:33                                                         ` David Rientjes
2011-04-22  0:34                                                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-21 13:03                                                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-21 19:38                                                     ` David Rientjes
2011-04-21 20:02                                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-21 21:19                                                         ` David Rientjes
2011-04-21 21:24                                                           ` James Bottomley
2011-04-21 21:34                                                             ` David Rientjes
2011-04-21 21:49                                                               ` James Bottomley
2011-04-21 22:12                                                                 ` David Rientjes
2011-04-22  8:02                                                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-22 13:49                                                                     ` James Bottomley
2011-04-22 17:00                                                                       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-22 17:03                                                                         ` James Bottomley
2011-04-21 21:41                                                           ` [patch] mm: always set nodes with regular memory in N_NORMAL_MEMORY David Rientjes
2011-04-22  0:36                                                             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-20 21:05                                               ` [PATCH v3] mm: make expand_downwards symmetrical to expand_upwards David Rientjes
2011-04-20 11:20                                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-04-20 11:28                                               ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-20 14:15                                                 ` James Bottomley
2011-04-20 14:50                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-20 15:02                                                     ` James Bottomley
2011-04-20 15:22                                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-20 19:25                                                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-04-20 21:42                                                         ` David Rientjes
2011-04-21 16:06                                                           ` James Bottomley
2011-04-21 22:19                                                             ` David Rientjes
2011-04-21 22:31                                                               ` James Bottomley
2011-04-20 13:58                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-20 21:34                                               ` David Rientjes
2011-04-20 14:07                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-20  2:33                                     ` James Bottomley
2011-04-19 17:12             ` Christoph Lameter

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