Re: mem=16MB laptop testing

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:12:08PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I do not think this wants to be fixed. It should remain compatible
> with 2.4.X, and if it is not that's a bug [and pretty dangerous & hard
> to debug one -- if you mark something as ram which is not, you get
> real bad data corruption].

2.4:
static void __init limit_regions (unsigned long long size)
{
	unsigned long long current_addr = 0;
	int i;

	for (i = 0; i < e820.nr_map; i++) {
		if (e820.map[i].type == E820_RAM) {
			current_addr = e820.map[i].addr + e820.map[i].size;
			if (current_addr >= size) {
				e820.map[i].size -= current_addr-size;
				e820.nr_map = i + 1;
				return;
			}
		}
	}
}

2.5:
static void __init limit_regions (unsigned long long size)
{
	int i;
	unsigned long long current_size = 0;

	for (i = 0; i < e820.nr_map; i++) {
		if (e820.map[i].type == E820_RAM) {
			current_size += e820.map[i].size;
			if (current_size >= size) {
				e820.map[i].size -= current_size-size;
				e820.nr_map = i + 1;
				return;
			}
		}
	}
}