linux-kernel - Re: Early boot panic on machine with lots of memory

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:15:15 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hpa@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Early boot panic on machine with lots of memory

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:22:14PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>> > Hello, Yinghai.
>> >
>> > Sorry about the delay.  I'm in bug storm somehow. :(
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 07:14:43PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>> >> > I wish we had a single call - say, memblock_die(), or whatever - so
>> >> > that there's a clear indication that memblock usage is done, but yeah
>> >> > maybe another day.  Will review the patch itself.  BTW, can't you post
>> >> > patches inline anymore?  Attaching is better than corrupt but is still
>> >> > a bit annoying for review.
>> >>
>> >> please check the three patches:
>> >
>> > Heh, reviewing is cumbersome this way but here are my comments.
>> >
>> > * "[PATCH] memblock: free allocated memblock_reserved_regions later"
>> >  looks okay to me.
>>
>> Good, this one should go to 3.5, right?
>
> Yes, I think so.
>

Andrew,

can you push attached to Linus ?
or we need to route it through tip?

Thanks

Yinghai

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