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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix initial lmb add region with a non-zero base
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:20:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JPIT1-0001ke-GR@jdl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:37:27 CST." <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802130719330.14428@blarg.am.freescale.net>

So, like, the other day Kumar Gala mumbled:
> If we add to an empty lmb region with a non-zero base we will not coalesce
> the number of regions done to one.  This causes problems on ppc32 for the

s/done/down

> memory region as its assumed to only have one region.
> 
> We can fix this be easily specially casing the initial add to just replace
> the dummy region.
> 
> ---
>
> Posting this since Dave's looking a pulling the lmb code out into lib/ and
> sharing it between powerpc and sparc.

Did you want to S-o-b: this patch?  Or was this just informational?

Thanks,
jdl

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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix initial lmb add region with a non-zero base
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:20:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JPIT1-0001ke-GR@jdl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:37:27 CST." <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802130719330.14428@blarg.am.freescale.net>

So, like, the other day Kumar Gala mumbled:
> If we add to an empty lmb region with a non-zero base we will not coalesce
> the number of regions done to one.  This causes problems on ppc32 for the

s/done/down

> memory region as its assumed to only have one region.
> 
> We can fix this be easily specially casing the initial add to just replace
> the dummy region.
> 
> ---
>
> Posting this since Dave's looking a pulling the lmb code out into lib/ and
> sharing it between powerpc and sparc.

Did you want to S-o-b: this patch?  Or was this just informational?

Thanks,
jdl

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix initial lmb add region with a non-zero base
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:20:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JPIT1-0001ke-GR@jdl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:37:27 CST." <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802130719330.14428@blarg.am.freescale.net>

So, like, the other day Kumar Gala mumbled:
> If we add to an empty lmb region with a non-zero base we will not coalesce
> the number of regions done to one.  This causes problems on ppc32 for the

s/done/down

> memory region as its assumed to only have one region.
> 
> We can fix this be easily specially casing the initial add to just replace
> the dummy region.
> 
> ---
>
> Posting this since Dave's looking a pulling the lmb code out into lib/ and
> sharing it between powerpc and sparc.

Did you want to S-o-b: this patch?  Or was this just informational?

Thanks,
jdl

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-13 13:37 [PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix initial lmb add region with a non-zero base Kumar Gala
2008-02-13 13:37 ` Kumar Gala
2008-02-13 13:37 ` Kumar Gala
2008-02-13 14:20 ` Jon Loeliger [this message]
2008-02-13 14:20   ` Jon Loeliger
2008-02-13 14:20   ` Jon Loeliger
2008-02-13 15:37   ` Kumar Gala
2008-02-13 15:37     ` Kumar Gala
2008-02-13 15:37     ` Kumar Gala
2008-02-13 22:33 ` David Miller
2008-02-13 22:33   ` David Miller
2008-02-13 22:33   ` [PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix initial lmb add region with a non-zero David Miller

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