Re: [PATCH/v2] mm/memblock: Properly handle overlaps and fix errorpath

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Mar 10 2011 - 01:46:43 EST



* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 12:41 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > > Hopefully not damaged with a spurious bit of email header this
> > > time around... sorry about that.
> >
> > works on my setups...
> >
> > [ 0.000000] Subtract (26 early reservations)
> > [ 0.000000] [000009a000-000009efff]
> > [ 0.000000] [000009f400-00000fffff]
> > [ 0.000000] [0001000000-0003495048]
> > ...
> > before:
> > [ 0.000000] Subtract (27 early reservations)
> > [ 0.000000] [000009a000-000009efff]
> > [ 0.000000] [000009f400-00000fffff]
> > [ 0.000000] [00000f85b0-00000f86b3]
> > [ 0.000000] [0001000000-0003495048]
>
> Ah interesting, so you did have a case of overlap that wasn't properly
> handled as well.
>
> If there is no objection, I'll queue that up in powerpc-next for the
> upcoming merge window (soon now).

I think it would be better to do it via -mm, as x86 and other architectures are now
affected by memblock changes as well.

Thanks,

Ingo
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