linux-kernel - Re: [stable] 16G related patches for stable kernel 2.6.27

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Date:	Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:07:43 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Jon Tollefson <kniht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	stable@...nel.org, linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] 16G related patches for stable kernel 2.6.27

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:56:56PM -0500, Jon Tollefson wrote:
> Please consider the following patches for the 2.6.27 stable tree.
> 
> The first two allow a powerpc machine with more then 2 numa nodes
> to boot when 16G pages are enabled.  The third one allows a powerpc
> machine to boot if using 16G pages and the mem= boot param.
> 
> thanks,
> Jon
> 
> 
> powerpc: Reserve in bootmem lmb reserved regions that cross NUMA nodes
>     commit 8f64e1f2d1e09267ac926e15090fd505c1c0cbcb
> powerpc/numa: Make memory reserve code more robust
>     commit e81703724a966120ace6504c993bda9e084cbf3e
> powerpc: Don't use a 16G page if beyond mem= limits
>     commit 4792adbac9eb41cea77a45ab76258ea10d411173

I've queued up all of these.

thanks,

greg k-h
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