From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: disable the GART before allocate aperture
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:31:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070622193124.GG5051@rhun.smartcity.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706221219.16243.yinghai.lu@sun.com>
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:19:15PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> [PATCH] x86-64: disable the GART before allocate aperture
>
> For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more
> than 4G RAM installed. when mem is allocated for GART, it will do
> the memset for clear. and for kexec case, the first kernel already
> enable that, the memset in second kernel will cause the system
> restart. So disable that at first before we try to allocate mem for
> it.
Why does the memset in the second kernel cause a system restart?
Cheers,
Muli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-22 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-22 19:19 [PATCH] x86-64: disable the GART before allocate aperture Yinghai Lu
2007-06-22 19:31 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2007-06-22 19:38 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-22 19:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-22 20:33 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-22 21:28 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-22 21:38 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-22 21:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-22 21:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-22 21:45 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-22 21:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-22 22:19 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-22 22:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-22 22:43 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-22 22:54 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-22 22:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-22 23:04 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-22 23:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-23 0:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-23 0:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-23 0:35 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-23 0:38 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-23 2:34 ` [PATCH] x86-64: disable the GART in shutdown Yinghai Lu
2007-06-23 10:39 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-23 10:59 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-23 11:09 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-23 11:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-25 0:18 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-23 16:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-25 0:22 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-25 2:10 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-25 19:34 ` [PATCH] x86-64: disable the GART in shutdown v2 Yinghai Lu
2007-06-25 19:41 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-25 19:52 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-25 19:56 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-25 21:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86-64: disable the GART in shutdown Yinghai Lu
2007-06-25 21:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86_84: move iommu declaration from proto to iommu.h Yinghai Lu
2007-06-26 11:43 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-23 9:08 ` [PATCH] x86-64: disable the GART before allocate aperture Alan Cox
2007-06-23 11:12 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-06-23 13:14 ` Andi Kleen
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