Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [BOOTMEM] bad physical address convertions. | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Tue, 05 Apr 2005 13:00:09 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 09:39 +0200, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > Unfortunately there are some places in linux where this is not the case. > "bootmem.c" is one of these places. For instance, it does "addr >> > PAGE_SHIFT" > instead of using "phys_to_pfn" macro in order to convert a physical > address into a page > frame number. > > Are there any interests for a patch which will fix that ?
Probably not.
I suggest using something like discontigmem (or even sparsemem for that matter) to properly handles holes in your address space.
-- Dave
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