Re: [PATCH] break out zone free list initialization

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 01:24, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The following patch removes the individual free area initialization from
> >  free_area_init_core(), and puts it in a new function
> >  zone_init_free_lists().  It also creates pages_to_bitmap_size(), which
> >  is then used in zone_init_free_lists() as well as several times in my
> >  free area bitmap resizing patch.  
> 
> This causes my very ordinary p4 testbox to crash very early in boot.  It's
> quite pretty, with nice colourful stripes of blinking text on the display.

Just for a sanity check: are there other machines that it booted on
without any problems for you?

I'll go steal someone's P4 desktop and retest.

-- Dave

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