linux-kernel - RE: [PATCHSET percpu#for-next] percpu: convert ia64 to dynamic percpu and drop the old one

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Date:	Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:49:32 -0700
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	linux-ia64 <linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCHSET percpu#for-next] percpu: convert ia64 to dynamic
	percpu and drop the old one

> Contig memory model was verified with ski emulator.  Discontig and
> sparse models were verified on a 4-way SGI altix machine.  I've run
> percpu stress test module for quite a while on the machine.

Ski must have missed something.  I just tried to boot this on a
"tiger_defconfig" kernel[1] and it panic'd early in boot.  I'll need
to re-connect my serial console to get the useful part of the
panic message ... what's on the VGA console isn't very helpful :-(

-Tony

[1] uses contig.c
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