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* [PATCH] ia64 specific for Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent
@ 2006-08-29 10:12 Bob Picco
  2006-09-10  1:03 ` Andy Whitcroft
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Bob Picco @ 2006-08-29 10:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm; +Cc: mel, tony.luck, bob.picco, linux-kernel


Andrew,

Mel's latest V9 regressed slightly for ia64 FLATMEM+VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP. When 
the largest hole is greater than LARGE_GAP, vmem_map is allocated before 
free_area_init_nodes; resultant crash follows. Rather than complicate
alloc_node_mem_map just for this ia64 case, add an adjustment to node_mem_map
which is later negated by alloc_node_mem_map.

Previous to V9, the mem_map adjustment was done in the scope where allocation
is achieved in alloc_node_mem_map. The current code is more appropriate but
unfortunately caused an issue for ia64.

Please add this to the next -mm.

thanks,

bob

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>

 arch/ia64/mm/contig.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm3/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm3.orig/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c	2006-08-28 13:10:00.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm3/arch/ia64/mm/contig.c	2006-08-28 18:18:54.000000000 -0400
@@ -252,7 +252,12 @@ paging_init (void)
 		vmem_map = (struct page *) vmalloc_end;
 		efi_memmap_walk(create_mem_map_page_table, NULL);
 
-		NODE_DATA(0)->node_mem_map = vmem_map;
+		/*
+		 * alloc_node_mem_map makes an adjustment for mem_map
+		 * which isn't compatible with vmem_map.
+		 */
+		NODE_DATA(0)->node_mem_map = vmem_map +
+			find_min_pfn_with_active_regions();
 		free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
 
 		printk("Virtual mem_map starts at 0x%p\n", mem_map);

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