On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 03:46:28PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> This patch series fixes the crashkernel reservation on NUMA machine. The
> regression was discovered by Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> 
> The background is that on NUMA machines, reserve_bootmem_generic() is required
> instead of reserve_bootmem(). To achieve that, it's necessary to make a few
> API changes.
> 
> The patches are against latest linux-2.6 git. They should still go into 2.6.26
> since it's only bug fixing. For 2.6.27, we should unify crashkernel 
> reservation
> for i386 and x86-64.
> 
> Tested on both i386 and x86-64. Compilation was tested with both kexec 
> disabled
> and enabled. The change is x86 only, so no need to test on other 
> architectures.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Yes we should be using reserve_bootmem_generic() for reserving memory
on NUMA machines. Recently myself and Dave A. ran into crash while 
reserving memory using resreve_bootmem() on a NUMA machine. 

Reason for crash? reserve_bootmem() always assumes node id to be zero, and
that was not the case.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Thanks
Vivek

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