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

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Message-ID: <20070509090046.GE17482@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Wed, 9 May 2007 11:00:46 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
Cc:	Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@...e.fr>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, ak@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kmem_cache_init failure (was Re: 2.6.21-mm1)

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:40:24AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >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.

Yes the version of the patch that went into Linus' tree doesn't have it.
Does the problem happen with mainline gitLATEST too?

-Andi
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