On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Real Name <enjoymind...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> Can you please include in the changelog the commit sha1 which made the
>> > >> old init_maps() obsolete?
>
> I think we need find out which commit deleted the line "mem_map = map;" in
> init_maps function.
marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=111024122220474&w=2
v2.6.12-rc1
commit 5678d7fc97ac75f7401ce77897773cc0bb3afee5
Author: Dave Hansen <haveb...@us.ibm.com>
Date: Sun Mar 13 00:22:56 2005 -0800
[PATCH] no arch-specific mem_map init
So, this patch started out with me trying to keep from passing contiguous,
node-specific mem_map into free_area_init_node() and cousins. Instead, I
relied on some calls to pfn_to_page().
This works fine and dandy when all you need is the pgdat->node_mem_map to
do pfn_to_page(). However, the non-NUMA/DISCONTIG architectures use the
real, global mem_map[] instead of a node_mem_map in the pfn_to_page()
calculation. So, I ended up effectively trying to initialize mem_map from
itself, when it was NULL. That was bad, and caused some very pretty colors
on someone's screen when he tested it.
So, I had to make sure to initialize the global mem_map[] before calling
into free_area_init_node(). Then, I realized how many architectures do
this on their own, and have comments like this:
/* XXX: MRB-remove - this doesn't seem sane, should this be done som
mem_map = NODE_DATA(0)->node_mem_map;
The following patch does what my first one did (don't pass mem_map into the
init functions), incorporates Jesse Barnes' ia64 fixes on top of that, and
gets rid of all but one of the global mem_map initializations (parisc is
weird). It also magically removes more code than it adds. It could be
smaller, but I shamelessly added some comments.
Boot-tested on ppc64, i386 (NUMAQ, plain SMP, laptop), UML (i386).
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveb...@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@osdl.org>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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