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SubjectRe: [PATCH] uml: fix hardcoded ZONE_* constants in zone setup
Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> wrote:
>
> On Friday 04 November 2005 23:46, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > "Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> wrote:
> > > From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
> > >
> > > Remove usage of hardcoded constants in paging_init().
>
> > An earlier patch from Jeff (below) already changed this code.
>
> Andrew, yes indeed: quoting from my changelog (yep, I should have made it
> clearer):
> > > By chance I spotted a bug in zones_setup involving a change to ZONE_*
> > > constants, due to the ZONE_DMA32 patch from Andi Kleen (which is in -mm).
> > > So, possibly, instead of zones_size[2] you will find zones_size[3] in the
> > > code, but that change is wrong and this patch is still correct.
> I'm talking exactly of this Jeff's change, and I did exactly what you did...

It all comes back to me now ;)

> Thanks anyway for spending some time caring about this, it's nice to see
> attention on UML (sorry, no kidding and no complaining).
>
> > Jeff's change looks rather wrong:
> The original reason was done for -mm and ZONE_DMA32.
>
> > #define MAX_NR_ZONES 3 /* Sync this with ZONES_SHIFT */
> > zones_size[3] = highmem >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> >
> > which overindexes the local array.
>
> > The above change is unmentioned in Jeff's changelog and I'll just drop that
> > part. Please confirm.
> Yep, ACK.

OK, using ZONE_HIGHMEM there will insulate UML from Andi's changes.

> > There are other parts of this patch whci are unchangelogged. Please
> > double-check the whole thing.
>
> I will re-check again later, but the unchangelogged changes seem to be just
> long -> long long conversions.

OK, thanks.
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