From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:04:21 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Handle kernelcore= boot parameter in common code to avoid boot problem on IA64 Message-Id: <20070424140421.5c1e6457.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070424180052.22005.61762.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> References: <20070424180032.22005.82088.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> <20070424180052.22005.61762.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, apw@shadowen.org, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com List-ID: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:00:52 +0100 (IST) Mel Gorman 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 > Acked-by: Mel Gorman > Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft 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. -- 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: email@kvack.org