Re: [PATCH -mm/x86] revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem (WasRe: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1)

From: Dhaval Giani
Date: Mon Jan 07 2008 - 10:19:40 EST


On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:56:09PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Andrew, Ingo, Thomas, Peter,
> > >
> > > x86: revert i386: handle an initrd in highmem
> > >
> > > The patch caused a failure while booting a kexec kernel.
> > > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/7/42 has the bisect details.)
> > >
> > > The following patch reverts it.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks for tracking this down. I'll pull the patch from the x86 git
> > tree as well.
>
> Dhaval, how about the other problem you had - do you have any guess
> what it might be related to?
>

other problem? The load_balance_monitor one? (We are still looking into
that one, just seems that se (as usual :) ) is turning out to be null).

> i'm also wondering - what would be the easiest way to integrate kexec
> into an automated test environment. If i have a bzImage kernel, is kexec
> still supposed to work? Could i for example do a reboot into a new
> (kexec-enabled) kernel via kexec in essence?
>

Yes, I use a bzImage kernel to reboot using kexec. I use a script which
just sets it up for me. (I can send it to you separately).

--
regards,
Dhaval
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