linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix crash with FLAT_MEMORY and ARCH_PFN

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Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:24:04 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Bob Picco <bob.picco@...com>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	"Keith Mannthey" <kmannth@...il.com>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix crash with FLAT_MEMORY and ARCH_PFN_OFFSET != 0

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:03:00 +0100 (CET) Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de> wrote:

> When using FLAT_MEMORY and ARCH_PFN_OFFSET is not 0, the kernel
> crashes in memmap_init_zone(). This bug got introduced by
> commit c713216deebd95d2b0ab38fef8bb2361c0180c2d
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
> ---
> 
>  mm/page_alloc.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index b5a58d4..496f7f3 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -3427,7 +3427,7 @@ static void __init_refok alloc_node_mem_map(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
>  		mem_map = NODE_DATA(0)->node_mem_map;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP
>  		if (page_to_pfn(mem_map) != pgdat->node_start_pfn)
> -			mem_map -= pgdat->node_start_pfn;
> +			mem_map -= (pgdat->node_start_pfn - ARCH_PFN_OFFSET);
>  #endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP */
>  	}
>  #endif

hm.  It's rather non-trivial to verify that this will compile OK on all
architectures.

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