From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:31:34 -0700 From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai Subject: Re: [patch] mm: Ensure proper alignment for node_remap_start_pfn Message-ID: <20050728013134.GB23923@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050728004241.GA16073@localhost.localdomain> <20050727181724.36bd28ed.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050727181724.36bd28ed.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, shai@scalex86.org List-ID: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:17:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ravikiran G Thirumalai 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org