linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86_32: fix trim mtrr not to setup

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Date:	Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:16:49 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel.send@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Cc:	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86_32: fix trim mtrr not to setup_memory two times


we could call find_max_pfn() directly instead of setup_memory() to get
max_pfn needed for mtrr trimming.

otherwise setup_mempry is called two times... that is duplicated...

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
@@ -448,8 +448,6 @@ static unsigned long __init setup_memory
 	 */
 	min_low_pfn = PFN_UP(init_pg_tables_end);
 
-	find_max_pfn();
-
 	max_low_pfn = find_max_low_pfn();
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
@@ -811,12 +809,13 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	if (efi_enabled)
 		efi_init();
 
-	max_low_pfn = setup_memory();
-
 	/* update e820 for memory not covered by WB MTRRs */
+	find_max_pfn();
 	mtrr_bp_init();
 	if (mtrr_trim_uncached_memory(max_pfn))
-		max_low_pfn = setup_memory();
+		find_max_pfn();
+
+	max_low_pfn = setup_memory();
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_VMI
 	/*
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/discontig_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/mm/discontig_32.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/discontig_32.c
@@ -324,7 +324,6 @@ unsigned long __init setup_memory(void)
 	 * this space and use it to adjust the boundary between ZONE_NORMAL
 	 * and ZONE_HIGHMEM.
 	 */
-	find_max_pfn();
 	get_memcfg_numa();
 
 	kva_pages = calculate_numa_remap_pages();
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