From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] bootmem for 2.5
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 20:10:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011105201053.E26577@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011102140207.V31822@w-wli.des.beaverton.ibm.com> <1005017025.897.0.camel@phantasy>
In-Reply-To: <1005017025.897.0.camel@phantasy>; from rml@tech9.net on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:23:45PM -0500
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 10:23:45PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> The patch is without problem on 2.4.13-ac7. Free memory increased by
> about 100K: free and dmesg both confirm 384292k vs 384196k. This is a
> P3-733 on an i815 with 384MB. Very nice.
> Note that the patch and UP-APIC do not get along. Some quick debugging
> with William found the cause. APIC does indeed touch bootmem. The
> above is thus obviously with CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC unset.
Thank you very much for testing the patch! And doubly so for uncovering
this deficiency, which I will work to correct in short order as soon as
I can get to some UP APIC machines (tomorrow).
It looks like things may be going wrong around line 675 of apic.c,
though I can't say more for sure at the moment.
Thanks,
Bill
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willir@us.ibm.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-06 4:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-02 22:02 [RFC] bootmem for 2.5 William Irwin
2001-11-03 3:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
[not found] ` <20011102214308.A8217@kroah.com>
2001-11-03 19:58 ` William Lee Irwin III
2001-11-06 3:23 ` Robert Love
2001-11-06 4:10 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2001-11-08 0:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2001-11-08 2:06 ` Robert Love
2001-11-09 0:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
2001-12-15 6:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-12-15 13:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
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