linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28-rc9 panics with crashkernel=256M while booting

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Message-Id: <1231349125.23462.81.camel@nimitz>
Date:	Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:25:25 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Chandru <chandru@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc9 panics with crashkernel=256M while booting

On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 18:28 +0530, Chandru wrote:
> I don't know how you wanted NODE_DATA() to be consulted here. i.e before 
> calling reserve_bootmem_node() should we have a condition 
> 
>         if (PFN_UP(physbase+reserve_size) > node_end_pfn) 
>         then
>                 resize reserve_size again so that PFN_UP() will equate to node_end_pfn ??
>         end 

I'm just suggesting making your fix in the ppc code instead of in
mm/bootmem.c.

-- Dave

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