On Friday 04 November 2005 23:46, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Remove usage of hardcoded constants in paging_init().

> An earlier patch from Jeff (below) already changed this code.

Andrew, yes indeed: quoting from my changelog (yep, I should have made it 
clearer):
> > By chance I spotted a bug in zones_setup involving a change to ZONE_*
> > constants, due to the ZONE_DMA32 patch from Andi Kleen (which is in -mm).
> > So, possibly, instead of zones_size[2] you will find zones_size[3] in the
> > code, but that change is wrong and this patch is still correct.
I'm talking exactly of this Jeff's change, and I did exactly what you did...

Thanks anyway for spending some time caring about this, it's nice to see 
attention on UML (sorry, no kidding and no complaining).

> Jeff's change looks rather wrong:
The original reason was done for -mm and ZONE_DMA32.

> #define MAX_NR_ZONES            3       /* Sync this with ZONES_SHIFT */
>       zones_size[3] = highmem >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>
> which overindexes the local array.

> The above change is unmentioned in Jeff's changelog and I'll just drop that
> part.  Please confirm.
Yep, ACK.
> There are other parts of this patch whci are unchangelogged.  Please
> double-check the whole thing.

I will re-check again later, but the unchangelogged changes seem to be just 
long -> long long conversions.
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