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Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:46:17 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Make NUMA on 32-bit depend on BROKEN


* Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:

> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> Subject: x86: Make NUMA on 32-bit depend on BROKEN
> 
> While investigating the failure of hibernation on 32-bit x86 with 
> CONFIG_NUMA set, as described in this message 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122634118116226&w=4 I asked some 
> people for help and I was told that it wasn't really worth the 
> effort, because CONFIG_NUMA was generally broken on 32-bit x86 
> systems and it shouldn't be used in such configs.  For this reason, 
> make CONFIG_NUMA depend on BROKEN instead of EXPERIMENTAL on x86-32.

Actually, it works just fine on a wide range of 32-bit systems that i 
have, so NAK.

Hibernation might not work but that's i believe a NUMA<->HIBERNATION 
interaction issue, we need to fix that. Regular system bootup and 
stress-tests work just fine.

	Ingo
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