From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030192AbWBHKZG (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 05:25:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932471AbWBHKZG (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 05:25:06 -0500 Received: from holly.csn.ul.ie ([136.201.105.4]:16609 "EHLO holly.csn.ul.ie") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932116AbWBHKZE (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 05:25:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:23:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Mel Gorman X-X-Sender: mel@skynet To: Joel Schopp Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 4/9] ppc64 - Specify amount of kernel memory at boot time In-Reply-To: <43E90BC1.7010907@austin.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <20060126184305.8550.94358.sendpatchset@skynet.csn.ul.ie> <20060126184425.8550.64598.sendpatchset@skynet.csn.ul.ie> <43E90BC1.7010907@austin.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Joel Schopp wrote: > > This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for ppc64 > > ... > > > diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff > > linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm3-103_x86coremem/mm/page_alloc.c > > linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm3-104_ppc64coremem/mm/page_alloc.c > > --- linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm3-103_x86coremem/mm/page_alloc.c 2006-01-26 > > 18:09:04.000000000 +0000 > > +++ linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm3-104_ppc64coremem/mm/page_alloc.c 2006-01-26 > > 18:10:29.000000000 +0000 > > Not to nitpick, but this chunk should go in a different patch, it's not ppc64 > specific. > You're right. It was put in here because it was testing this patch on ppc64 that the bug was revealed. It should be moved to the patch that adds the actual zone. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab