Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:27:20 +0000 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix crash with FLAT_MEMORY and ARCH_PFN_OFFSET != 0 |
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On (20/12/07 13:43), Thomas Bogendoerfer didst pronounce: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:44:06AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > > --- a/include/asm-mips/page.h > > +++ b/include/asm-mips/page.h > > @@ -37,13 +37,6 @@ > > #include <linux/pfn.h> > > #include <asm/io.h> > > > > -/* > > - * It's normally defined only for FLATMEM config but it's > > - * used in our early mem init code for all memory models. > > - * So always define it. > > - */ > > -#define ARCH_PFN_OFFSET PFN_UP(PHYS_OFFSET) > > - > > hmm, doesn't this break what I've fixed ? Without this #define > ARCH_PFN_OFFSET gets defined to 0 and the bug is back. Or did > I miss anything ? >
ARCH_PFN_OFFSET goes to 0, so page_to_pfn() is no longer adjusting by PFN_UP(PHYS_OFFSET) like it was when your problem occured. I am guessing that the nature of the crash was that page_to_pfn() was returning bogus values early in boot and trying to initialise memmap that didn't exist.
-- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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