linux/arch
keith mannthey 9102330005 [PATCH] convert i386 NUMA KVA space to bootmem
Address a long standing issue of booting with an initrd on an i386 numa
system.  Currently (and always) the numa kva area is mapped into low memory
by finding the end of low memory and moving that mark down (thus creating
space for the kva).  The issue with this is that Grub loads initrds into
this similar space so when the kernel check the initrd it finds it outside
max_low_pfn and disables it (it thinks the initrd is not mapped into usable
memory) thus initrd enabled kernels can't boot i386 numa :(

My solution to the problem just converts the numa kva area to use the
bootmem allocator to save it's area (instead of moving the end of low
memory).  Using bootmem allows the kva area to be mapped into more diverse
addresses (not just the end of low memory) and enables the kva area to be
mapped below the initrd if present.

I have tested this patch on numaq(no initrd) and summit(initrd) i386 numa
based systems.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
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alpha [PATCH] arch/alpha: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro 2006-07-31 13:28:38 -07:00
arm [ARM] 3794/1: S3C24XX: do not defined set_irq_wake when no CONFIG_PM 2006-09-18 13:30:20 +01:00
arm26 [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
cris [PATCH] pcf8563: remove MOD_INC_USE_COUNT, MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT 2006-07-10 13:24:22 -07:00
frv [PATCH] sanitize frv archclean 2006-09-22 17:48:56 -07:00
h8300 [PATCH] irq-flags: H8300: Use the new IRQF_ constants 2006-07-02 13:58:47 -07:00
i386 [PATCH] convert i386 NUMA KVA space to bootmem 2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
ia64 [PATCH] cpu to node relationship fixup: map cpu to node 2006-09-25 17:38:36 -07:00
m32r [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
m68k [PATCH] irq-flags: M68K: Use the new IRQF_ constants 2006-07-02 13:58:47 -07:00
m68knommu [PATCH] irq-flags: M68KNOMMU: Use the new IRQF_ constants 2006-07-02 13:58:47 -07:00
mips [MIPS] sparsemem: fix crash in show_mem 2006-07-13 21:26:22 +01:00
parisc [PATCH] vDSO hash-style fix 2006-07-31 13:28:43 -07:00
powerpc [PATCH] more fallout from get_property returning pointer to const 2006-09-23 11:34:43 -07:00
ppc [POWERPC] Fix compile error in sbc8560 2006-09-21 22:59:38 +10:00
s390 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2006-09-22 12:51:33 -07:00
sh Fix 'make headers_check' on sh 2006-09-21 08:36:50 +01:00
sh64 sh64: Add a sane pm_power_off implementation. 2006-09-12 14:40:09 +09:00
sparc [PATCH] sun4: fix sbus_setup_iommu() 2006-09-22 17:48:57 -07:00
sparc64 [SPARC64]: Fix section-mismatch errors in solaris emul module. 2006-09-25 16:39:55 -07:00
um [PATCH] vDSO hash-style fix 2006-07-31 13:28:43 -07:00
v850 [PATCH] v850: call init_page_count() instead of set_page_count() 2006-07-31 13:28:38 -07:00
x86_64 [CRYPTO] api: Get rid of flags argument to setkey 2006-09-21 11:41:02 +10:00
xtensa [PATCH] xtensa: ptrace: EXIT_ZOMBIE fix 2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00