linux-kernel - kmem_cache_init failure (was Re: 2.6.21-mm1)

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Message-Id: <46419708.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Date:	Wed, 09 May 2007 09:40:24 +0200
From:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Frederik Deweerdt" <deweerdt@...e.fr>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <ak@...e.de>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: kmem_cache_init failure (was Re: 2.6.21-mm1)

>I've bisected it down to the x86_64-mm-cpa-kerneltext.patch and the 
>
>+       if (!pte_present(*kpte))
>+               return 0;

I the most recent version of the patch I sent to Andi this line is gone (again),
as I realized it was wrong on i386 (namely for DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) and its
respective variant was superfluous on x86-64.

Jan

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