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author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2008-01-30 13:33:25 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-01-30 13:33:25 +0100 |
commit | 1b000a5dbeb2f34bc03d45ebdf3f6d24a60c3aed (patch) | |
tree | b5641d5d0548110b3bb33ba4abf3b37f2b34c0d5 /REPORTING-BUGS | |
parent | a5ff677c2fb10567d1e750fb9e4417d95081071b (diff) |
x86: make NUMA work on 32-bit
The DISCONTIG memory model on x86 32 bit uses a remap allocator early
in boot. The objective is that portions of every node are mapped in to
the kernel virtual area (KVA) in place of ZONE_NORMAL so that node-local
allocations can be made for pgdat and mem_map structures.
With SPARSEMEM, the amount that is set aside is insufficient for all the
mem_maps to be allocated. During the boot process, it falls back to using
the bootmem allocator. This breaks assumptions that SPARSEMEM makes about
the layout of the mem_map in memory and results in a VM_BUG_ON triggering
due to pfn_to_page() returning garbage values.
This patch only enables the remap allocator for use with DISCONTIG.
Without SRAT support, a compile-error occurs because ACPI table parsing
functions are only available in x86-64. This patch also adds no-op stubs
and prints a warning message. What likely needs to be done is sharing
the table parsing functions between 32 and 64 bit if they are
compatible.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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