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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:46:17 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Make NUMA on 32-bit depend on BROKEN
* Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> Subject: x86: Make NUMA on 32-bit depend on BROKEN
>
> While investigating the failure of hibernation on 32-bit x86 with
> CONFIG_NUMA set, as described in this message
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122634118116226&w=4 I asked some
> people for help and I was told that it wasn't really worth the
> effort, because CONFIG_NUMA was generally broken on 32-bit x86
> systems and it shouldn't be used in such configs. For this reason,
> make CONFIG_NUMA depend on BROKEN instead of EXPERIMENTAL on x86-32.
Actually, it works just fine on a wide range of 32-bit systems that i
have, so NAK.
Hibernation might not work but that's i believe a NUMA<->HIBERNATION
interaction issue, we need to fix that. Regular system bootup and
stress-tests work just fine.
Ingo
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