From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: galak@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2][POWERPC] Fix initial lmb add region with a non-zero base
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:30:03 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080219.163003.152862383.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802191350590.10089@blarg.am.freescale.net>
From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:51:37 -0600 (CST)
> If we add to an empty lmb region with a non-zero base we will not coalesce
> the number of regions down to one. This causes problems on ppc32 for the
> memory region as its assumed to only have one region.
>
> We can fix this easily by causing the initial add to replace the dummy
> region.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
>
> Fix a bug the initial patch introduced if we have a region that gets added
> at the beginning of the list we wouldn't actually add it.
>
> Dave can you replace the patch in you tree with this one.
I think my tree has already or will soon be pulled in so
I don't want to rebase it.
Why don't you simply send me the relative bug fix instead?
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 19:51 [PATCH v2][POWERPC] Fix initial lmb add region with a non-zero base Kumar Gala
2008-02-20 0:30 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-02-20 3:02 ` Kumar Gala
2008-02-20 3:31 ` David Miller
2008-02-21 2:16 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-02-21 2:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-02-21 4:01 ` Josh Boyer
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