linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] mm, nobootmem: fix wrong usage of max_low

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Message-Id: <1363670161-9214-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:15:59 +0900
From:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] mm, nobootmem: fix wrong usage of max_low_pfn

max_low_pfn reflect the number of _pages_ in the system,
not the maximum PFN. You can easily find that fact in init_bootmem().
So fix it.

Additionally, if 'start_pfn == end_pfn', we don't need to go futher,
so change range check.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>

diff --git a/mm/nobootmem.c b/mm/nobootmem.c
index 5e07d36..4711e91 100644
--- a/mm/nobootmem.c
+++ b/mm/nobootmem.c
@@ -110,9 +110,9 @@ static unsigned long __init __free_memory_core(phys_addr_t start,
 {
 	unsigned long start_pfn = PFN_UP(start);
 	unsigned long end_pfn = min_t(unsigned long,
-				      PFN_DOWN(end), max_low_pfn);
+				      PFN_DOWN(end), min_low_pfn);
 
-	if (start_pfn > end_pfn)
+	if (start_pfn >= end_pfn)
 		return 0;
 
 	__free_pages_memory(start_pfn, end_pfn);
-- 
1.7.9.5

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