[PATCH] ia64 specific for Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent

From: Bob Picco
Date: Tue Aug 29 2006 - 06:10:19 EST



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@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@xxxxxx>

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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