Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:29:26 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: cma: fix accounting of CMA pages placed in high memory | From | Kyungmin Park <> |
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On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:27:05 +0100 > Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> wrote: > >> The total number of low memory pages is determined as >> totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages, so without this patch all CMA >> pageblocks placed in highmem were accounted to low memory. > > What are the end-user-visible effects of this bug?
Even though CMA is located at highmem. LowTotal has more than lowmem address spaces.
e.g., lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdf000000 ( 496 MB) LowTotal: 555788 kB
> > (This information is needed so that others can make patch-scheduling > decisions and should be included in all bugfix changelogs unless it is > obvious).
CMA Highmem support is new feature. so don't need to go stable tree.
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