linux-kernel - Re: Commit for mm/page_alloc.c breaks boot process on my machine

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Date:	Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:50:20 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	Gerhard Pircher <gerhard_pircher@....net>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Commit for mm/page_alloc.c breaks boot process on my machine


On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 10:23 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On (05/02/08 11:01), Benjamin Herrenschmidt didst pronounce:
> > 
> > > 
> > > It's a virtual address so it depends on the value of CONFIG_KERNEL_START
> > > as to whether this is a user program address or not.
> > 
> > Shouldn't it be PAGE_OFFSET ? I mean, CONFIG_KERNEL_START should work
> > on powerpc, but still...
> > 
> 
> mel@...old:~/git/linux-2.6$ grep PAGE_OFFSET include/asm-ppc/page.h
> #define PAGE_OFFSET     CONFIG_KERNEL_START

On powerpc sure.... but it's still dodgy I think.

Ben.


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