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Revision ea0854170c95245a258b386c7a9314399c949fe0 authored by Shaohui Zheng on 02 February 2010, 21:44:16 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 03 February 2010, 02:11:23 UTC 
memory hotplug: fix a bug on /dev/mem for 64-bit kernels
 
Newly added memory can not be accessed via /dev/mem, because we do not
update the variables high_memory, max_pfn and max_low_pfn.

Add a function update_end_of_memory_vars() to update these variables for
64-bit kernels.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify comment]
Signed-off-by: Shaohui Zheng <shaohui.zheng@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Li Haicheng <haicheng.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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initramfs_data.lzma.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.lzma"
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