linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86: max_low_pfn

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Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:32:45 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: max_low_pfn_mapped fix #3


try to merge the range with same page size in init_memory_mapping

so when GBpages is not there, we could do 2M pages at same time.

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

---
 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -763,6 +763,20 @@ unsigned long __init_refok init_memory_m
 	end_pfn = end>>PAGE_SHIFT;
 	nr_range = save_mr(mr, nr_range, start_pfn, end_pfn, 0);
 
+	/* try to merge same page size and continuous */
+	for (i = 0; nr_range > 1 && i < nr_range - 1; i++) {
+		unsigned long old_start;
+		if (mr[i].end != mr[i+1].start ||
+		    mr[i].page_size_mask != mr[i+1].page_size_mask)
+			continue;
+		/* move it */
+		old_start = mr[i].start;
+		memmove(&mr[i], &mr[i+1],
+			 (nr_range - 1 - i) * sizeof (struct map_range));
+		mr[i].start = old_start;
+		nr_range--;
+	}
+
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_range; i++)
 		printk(KERN_DEBUG " %010lx - %010lx page %s\n",
 				mr[i].start, mr[i].end,
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