linux-kernel - [Patch] x86: fix a wrong argument of reserve

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Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:34:45 -0400
From:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu, yinghai@...nel.org,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Subject: [Patch] x86: fix a wrong argument of reserve_bootmem()


This line looks suspicious, because if this is true, then the 'flags' parameter
of function reserve_bootmem_generic() will be unused when !CONFIG_NUMA.
I don't think this is what we want.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>

---
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 6176fe8..ea56b8c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ int __init reserve_bootmem_generic(unsigned long phys, unsigned long len,
 		return ret;
 
 #else
-	reserve_bootmem(phys, len, BOOTMEM_DEFAULT);
+	reserve_bootmem(phys, len, flags);
 #endif
 
 	if (phys+len <= MAX_DMA_PFN*PAGE_SIZE) {
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