On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:31:14PM -0800, Stephen Jones wrote:
> Ditto here.  I'm unable to boot 4.99.11 or .12

That is probably the bool type change fallout seen on other ports
too - uvm.page_idle_zero is a byte now and not aligned properly.

        call_pal PAL_OSF1_swpipl
        ldl     t0, sched_whichqs               /* look for non-empty queue */
        bne     t0, 4f
2:      lda     t0, uvm
        ldl     t0, UVM_PAGE_IDLE_ZERO(t0)      /* should we zero some pages? */
        beq     t0, 3f                          /* nope. */
        CALL(uvm_pageidlezero)
3:      ldl     t0, sched_whichqs               /* look for non-empty queue */
        beq     t0, 2b
4:      ldiq    a0, ALPHA_PSL_IPL_HIGH          /* disable all interrupts */
        call_pal PAL_OSF1_swpipl

try:
2:      lda     t0, uvm
        ldbu    t0, UVM_PAGE_IDLE_ZERO(t0)      /* should we zero some pages? */

instead. (Thanks to pavel for looking into the asm manual)

Martin