linux-kernel - Re: Commit 722bc6b167 breaks booting on an 8TB system.

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Date:	Sun, 3 Jun 2012 00:00:29 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>
Cc:	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Commit 722bc6b167 breaks booting on an 8TB system.

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Robin Holt <holt@....com> wrote:
> I just tried to boot an 8TB system.  It fails very early in boot with:
>
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Cannot find space for the kernel page tables
>
>
> A git bisect lead me to commit 722bc6b16771ed80871e1fd81c86d3627dda2ac8.
>
> A git revert of that commit based on Linus' current as of a few hours ago
> (commit fb21aff) does boot past that point on the 8TB configuration.

have some local patches. please check if they are helping...

Thanks

Yinghai

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