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On Apr 24, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 07:59 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> I'm going to change it to be just lmb_alloc() so it will be difficult
>> to share with ppc64 (other than w/an ifdef).
>
> Unless we change lmb_alloc to just be an lmb_alloc_base with 0 and  
> have
> the later do the right thing ?

don't follow.  Look at the "real" patch and comment on that.

> You don't put highmem in the LMBs ? If you do, we do need to have the
> max lowmem there no ?

we restrict lmb alloc via LMB_REAL_LIMIT in include/asm-powerpc/lmb.h

- k