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Revision 0c6cb974636dd29681b03f8eb0ae227decab01fb authored by Mel Gorman on 28 October 2006, 17:38:59 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 28 October 2006, 18:30:55 UTC
absent_pages_in_range() made the assumption that users of the arch-independent zone-sizing API would not care about holes beyound the end of physical memory. This was not the case and was "fixed" in a patch called "Account for holes that are outside the range of physical memory". However, when given a range that started before a hole in "real" memory and ended beyond the end of memory, it would get the result wrong. The bug is in mainline but a patch is below. It has been tested successfully on a number of machines and architectures. Additional credit to Keith Mannthey for discovering the problem, helping identify the correct fix and confirming it Worked For Him. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: keith mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Tip revision: 0c6cb974636dd29681b03f8eb0ae227decab01fb authored by Mel Gorman on 28 October 2006, 17:38:59 UTC
[PATCH] Calculation fix for memory holes beyong the end of physical memory
[PATCH] Calculation fix for memory holes beyong the end of physical memory
Tip revision: 0c6cb97
initramfs_data.S
/*
initramfs_data includes the compressed binary that is the
filesystem used for early user space.
Note: Older versions of "as" (prior to binutils 2.11.90.0.23
released on 2001-07-14) dit not support .incbin.
If you are forced to use older binutils than that then the
following trick can be applied to create the resulting binary:
ld -m elf_i386 --format binary --oformat elf32-i386 -r \
-T initramfs_data.scr initramfs_data.cpio.gz -o initramfs_data.o
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o built-in.o initramfs_data.o
initramfs_data.scr looks like this:
SECTIONS
{
.init.ramfs : { *(.data) }
}
The above example is for i386 - the parameters vary from architectures.
Eventually look up LDFLAGS_BLOB in an older version of the
arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile to see the flags used before .incbin was introduced.
Using .incbin has the advantage over ld that the correct flags are set
in the ELF header, as required by certain architectures.
*/
.section .init.ramfs,"a"
.incbin "usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz"
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