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SubjectRe: [patch] tip/x86_64: fix e820 merge issue which broke max_pfn_mapped
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Suresh Siddha
<suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:05:46AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> > BTW, please explain the need for your patch which has more changes, instead
>> > of my simple patch which was test booted on 3 different systems with both
>> > 32bit and 64bit kernels...
>>
>> try to reduce #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64/32, and make 32/64 at the same page.
>
> But it seem to have too many changes included in one patch.
>
> like calls to e820_register_active_regions(), remove_all_active_ranges()
> disappeared all together in this patch.. ??

old e820_end_of_ram() need to active_ranges aka early_node_map is initialized...
so if we make e820_end to get end of any type, we don't need to call
e820_register_active_regions anymore. and just letnuma code init that
later. to avoid extra operation.

should put more words in commit desc.

YH


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