is_highmem() and WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL (was: Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1)

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Jul 12 2004 - 06:33:25 EST


On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Andy Whitcroft:
> o convert uses of ZONE_HIGHMEM to is_highmem

| --- reference/mm/page_alloc.c 2004-07-07 18:08:56.000000000 +0100
| +++ current/mm/page_alloc.c 2004-07-07 18:10:15.000000000 +0100
| @@ -1421,7 +1421,7 @@ void __init memmap_init_zone(struct page
| INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
| #ifdef WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL
| /* The shift won't overflow because ZONE_NORMAL is below 4G. */
| - if (zone != ZONE_HIGHMEM)
| + if (!is_highmem(zone))
| set_page_address(page, __va(start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT));
| #endif
| start_pfn++;

The above change is incorrect, since zone is an unsigned long, while
is_highmem() takes a struct zone *.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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