Re: 2.6.14-rc1-git-now still dying in mm/slab - this time line 1849

[Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:43:05PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately I must confirm that it does not fix problem.  But it pointed
> out to me another thing - proc_inode_cache stuff is put into caches
> BEFORE this code is executed.  So if anything in mm/slab.c relies
> on node_to_mask[] being valid (and if it relies on some other things
> which are set this late), it probably won't work.

Hmmm.  Another data point for this bug.  Bryan, who encountered the same bug
on his box just tried 2.6.13 stock + numa slab patches from 2.6.13-mm s, and 
apparently, the kernel booted up on his opteron.  So I guess we should 
concentrate on  the x86_64 bootup part.

Thanks,
Kiran
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