From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, shai@scalex86.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: Ensure proper alignment for node_remap_start_pfn
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:31:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050728013134.GB23923@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050727181724.36bd28ed.akpm@osdl.org>
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:17:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote:
> >
> > While reserving KVA for lmem_maps of node, we have to make sure that
> > node_remap_start_pfn[] is aligned to a proper pmd boundary.
> > (node_remap_start_pfn[] gets its value from node_end_pfn[])
> >
>
> What are the effects of not having this patch applied? Does someone's
> computer crash, or what?
Yes, it does cause a crash.
Thanks,
Kiran
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-28 0:42 Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-07-28 1:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-28 1:31 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai [this message]
2005-07-28 17:20 ` Dave Hansen
2005-07-28 18:14 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-07-28 18:25 ` Dave Hansen
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