From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 21 Feb 2003 03:12:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p508B7762.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.119.98]:17600 "EHLO dea.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 03:12:53 +0000 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h1L3ChJ20056; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 04:12:43 +0100 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 04:12:42 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Andrew Clausen Cc: Linux-MIPS Subject: Re: [patch] bogus ramdisk sanity check on ip27 Message-ID: <20030221041242.B19392@linux-mips.org> References: <20030220003839.GF915@pureza.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030220003839.GF915@pureza.melbourne.sgi.com>; from clausen@melbourne.sgi.com on Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:38:39AM +1100 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 1504 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:38:39AM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote: > There is currently a check that the ramdisk image resides at a sane > memory address, below "max_pfn". However, max_pfn isn't initialized > (and apparently isn't relevant) for ip27. The only assignments to > max_pfn lie inside #ifndef CONFIG_SGI_IP27. > > Therefore, this test is bogus, so here's a patch to > #ifndef CONFIG_SGI_IP27 it. > > This patch applies cleanly on 2.4.x and 2.5.x (at a different offset). No winner in a beauty contest but I think it's ok until we sort the underlying NUMA issues which we'd have to do anyway at some point - more ccNUMA stuff will come eventually ... Ralf