Re: [PATCH] Fix memmap=exactmap boot argument

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Sep 09 2008 - 10:37:42 EST



* Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When using kdump modifying the e820 map is yielding strange results.
[...]
>
> This is happening because of an improper usage of strcmp() in the
> e820 parsing code. The strcmp() always returns !0 and never resets the
> value for e820.nr_map and returns an incorrect user-defined map.
>
> This patch fixes the problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>

applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Prarit!

Ingo
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