From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
apw@shadowen.org, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Handle kernelcore= boot parameter in common code to avoid boot problem on IA64
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:04:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070424140421.5c1e6457.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070424180052.22005.61762.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie>
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:00:52 +0100 (IST) Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
>
> When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64
> because of an infinite loop. In addition, the parsing code can be handled
> in an architecture-independent manner.
>
> This patch patches uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter.
> It is only available to architectures that support arch-independent
> zone-sizing (i.e. define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP). Other architectures
> will ignore the boot parameter.
>
> This effectively removes the following arch-specific patches;
>
> ia64-specify-amount-of-kernel-memory-at-boot-time.patch
> ppc-and-powerpc-specify-amount-of-kernel-memory-at-boot-time.patch
> x86_64-specify-amount-of-kernel-memory-at-boot-time.patch
> x86-specify-amount-of-kernel-memory-at-boot-time.patch
>
hm, OK. That makes a bit of a mess of the patch series but we can live
with that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Patch protocol: Yasunori Gogo wrote the patch, so there should have been a
From:him at the very top of the changelog. And you were in the patch
delivery path so you should have used Signed-off-by: rather than Acked-by:.
I made those two changes.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-24 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-24 18:00 [PATCH 0/2] Fix two boot problems related to ZONE_MOVABLE sizing Mel Gorman
2007-04-24 18:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] Handle kernelcore= boot parameter in common code to avoid boot problem on IA64 Mel Gorman
2007-04-24 21:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-04-24 18:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] Align ZONE_MOVABLE to a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary Mel Gorman
2007-04-25 2:00 ` Yasunori Goto
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