On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Olof Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Yinghai Lu <[email protected]> wrote: >> The new memblock_virt APIs are used to replaced old bootmem API. >> >> We need to allocate page below 4G for swiotlb. >> >> That should fix regression on Andrew's system that is using swiotlb. >> >> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]> >> Cc: Russell King <[email protected]> >> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]> > > This seems to have been merged by Linus tonight as ad6492b80f, and it > had fallout on ARM systems (boot failures with no console output on > all but 5 of my machine/config combos). > > Seems like it didn't have a chance to sit in -next, which is somewhat > understandable given that it's considered a bugfix and it indeed fixed > the bug it was meant to. > > i'm out of time to debug this tonight (I noticed the failures as I was > heading to bed and figured I'd at least bisect them), so I wouldn't > mind seeing a revert of the ARM side change of ad6492b80f until it's > been sorted out so we keep bisectabilty intact for the rest of the > kernel.
Like Olof, I noticed multiple boot failures on various ARM boards. I've confirmed that reverting the arch/arm part of this patch makes them all happily booting again. Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
