From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
yinghai@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] x86: fix a wrong argument of reserve_bootmem()
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:39:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090821143918.GI11098@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090821083709.5098.52505.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
* Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> wrote:
> This line looks suspicious, because if this is true, then the
> 'flags' parameter of function reserve_bootmem_generic() will be
> unused when !CONFIG_NUMA. I don't think this is what we want.
>
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
>
> ---
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> index 6176fe8..ea56b8c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ int __init reserve_bootmem_generic(unsigned long phys, unsigned long len,
> return ret;
>
> #else
> - reserve_bootmem(phys, len, BOOTMEM_DEFAULT);
> + reserve_bootmem(phys, len, flags);
Yes, this looks like an oversight. Since it only affected 32-bit
NUMA materially, which is quite rare, it probably didnt matter that
much but should be fixed ...
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-21 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-21 8:34 [Patch] x86: fix a wrong argument of reserve_bootmem() Amerigo Wang
2009-08-21 14:39 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-08-21 14:43 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix an incorrect " tip-bot for Amerigo Wang
2009-08-24 18:24 ` tip-bot for Amerigo Wang
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