On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 09:39 +0200, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> Unfortunately there are some places in linux where this is not the case.
> "bootmem.c" is one of these places. For instance, it does "addr >>
> PAGE_SHIFT"
> instead of using "phys_to_pfn" macro in order to convert a physical
> address into a page
> frame number.
>
> Are there any interests for a patch which will fix that ?
Probably not.
I suggest using something like discontigmem (or even sparsemem for that
matter) to properly handles holes in your address space.
-- Dave
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