[PATCH] powerpc: mem_init crash for sparsemem

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

I have a Cell blade with some broken memory in the middle of the
physical address space and this is correctly detected by the
firmware, but not relocated. When I enable CONFIG_SPARSEMEM,
the memsections for the nonexistant address space do not
get struct page entries allocated, as expected.

However, mem_init for the non-NUMA configuration tries to
access these pages without first looking if they are there.
I'm currently using the hack below to work around that, but
I have the feeling that there should be a cleaner solution
for this.

Please comment.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>

--- linux-2.6.15-rc.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -348,6 +348,9 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 #endif
 	for_each_pgdat(pgdat) {
 		for (i = 0; i < pgdat->node_spanned_pages; i++) {
+			if (!section_has_mem_map(__pfn_to_section
+					(pgdat->node_start_pfn + i)))
+				continue;
 			page = pgdat_page_nr(pgdat, i);
 			if (PageReserved(page))
 				reservedpages++;

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