Re: Weirdness in __alloc_bootmem_node_high
From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Tue Apr 17 2012 - 13:12:27 EST
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I just come across the following condition in __alloc_bootmem_node_high
> which I have hard times to understand. I guess it is a bug and we need
> something like the following. But, to be honest, I have no idea why we
> care about those 128MB above MAX_DMA32_PFN.
> ---
> mm/bootmem.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
> index 0131170..5adb072 100644
> --- a/mm/bootmem.c
> +++ b/mm/bootmem.c
> @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node_high(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
> /* update goal according ...MAX_DMA32_PFN */
> end_pfn = pgdat->node_start_pfn + pgdat->node_spanned_pages;
>
> - if (end_pfn > MAX_DMA32_PFN + (128 >> (20 - PAGE_SHIFT)) &&
> + if (end_pfn > MAX_DMA32_PFN + (128 << (20 - PAGE_SHIFT)) &&
> (goal >> PAGE_SHIFT) < MAX_DMA32_PFN) {
> void *ptr;
> unsigned long new_goal;
> --
We are not using bootmem with x86 now, so could remove those workaround now.
Thanks
Yinghai
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