From: Benjamin Krill <ben@codiert.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: rtas instantiation when commandline contains mem
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:36:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090717063620.GC22901@codiert.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247783770.27937.61.camel@pasglop>
>> the rtas instantiation (prom_init.c) doesn't work correctly if the
>> kernel parameter "mem=" is used. The current code doesn't evaluate
>> the kernel parameter which causes the issue that alloc_down
>> allocates somewhere in the "real" memory space. So it can
>> happen that the allocation space is above "mem=".
>>
>> Commit 2babf5c2ec2f2d5de3e38d20f7df7fd815fd10c9 removes the
>> evaluation of "mem=".
>
>Ah yes, we don't constraint prom_init.c to mem=, only the kernel
Is that with intent? Or should I provide a patch to include it again?
cheers
ben
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-17 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-16 13:12 rtas instantiation when commandline contains mem Benjamin Krill
2009-07-16 22:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-17 6:36 ` Benjamin Krill [this message]
2009-07-17 6:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-17 7:53 ` Michael Ellerman
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