linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell

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Date:	Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:02:09 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Cc:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>, cbe-oss-dev@...abs.org,
	akpm@...l.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org, paulus@...ba.org, mkravetz@...ibm.com,
	gone@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell

On Friday 15 December 2006 18:14, Dave Hansen wrote:
> +       if (system_state >= SYSTEM_RUNNING)
> +               return 1;
> +       if (!early_pfn_valid(pfn))
> +               return 0;
> +       if (!early_pfn_in_nid(pfn, nid))
> +               return 0;

I haven't tried it, but I assume this is still wrong. On cell,
we didn't actually hit the case where the init sections have
been overwritten, since we call __add_pages from an initcall.

However, the pages we add are not part of the early_node_map,
so early_pfn_in_nid() returns a bogus result, causing some
page structs not to get initialized. I believe your patch
is going in the right direction, but it does not solve the
bug we have...

	Arnd <><
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