Re: bisected crash due to "x86: Move swiotlb initialization beforedma32_free_bootmem"

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Dec 15 2009 - 05:57:20 EST



* FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are a few people who hit this. How many people use a box with over
> 256GB memory?
>
> And you can work around this with "dma32_size" kernel boot option.

Well, since the kernel has not crashed before this change there's really just
two options as per upstream kernel regression policy: either we fix it or we
revert it.

Ingo
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