From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 01:24:24 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] break out zone free list initialization Message-Id: <20040805012424.7da14c83.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1091034585.2871.142.camel@nighthawk> References: <1091034585.2871.142.camel@nighthawk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Dave Hansen Cc: wli@holomorphy.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- 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