From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sunset.davemloft.net (unknown [74.93.104.97]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D1CDDE2B for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:29:28 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:30:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080219.163003.152862383.davem@davemloft.net> To: galak@kernel.crashing.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2][POWERPC] Fix initial lmb add region with a non-zero base From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Kumar Gala 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 > --- > > 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!