Re: [patch 006/198] arm: add comment about max_low_pfn/max_pfn

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I told rmk about this long time ago.

On 4/12/05, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> From: Russell King <[email protected]>
> 
> Oddly, max_low_pfn/max_pfn end up being the number of pages in the system,
> rather than the maximum PFN on ARM.  This doesn't seem to cause any problems,
> so just add a note about it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
>  25-akpm/arch/arm/mm/init.c |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff -puN arch/arm/mm/init.c~arm-add-comment-about-max_low_pfn-max_pfn arch/arm/mm/init.c
> --- 25/arch/arm/mm/init.c~arm-add-comment-about-max_low_pfn-max_pfn     2005-04-12 03:21:04.967381744 -0700
> +++ 25-akpm/arch/arm/mm/init.c  2005-04-12 03:21:04.971381136 -0700
> @@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ find_memend_and_nodes(struct meminfo *mi
>          * This doesn't seem to be used by the Linux memory
>          * manager any more.  If we can get rid of it, we
>          * also get rid of some of the stuff above as well.
> +        *
> +        * Note: max_low_pfn and max_pfn reflect the number
> +        * of _pages_ in the system, not the maximum PFN.
>          */
>         max_low_pfn = memend_pfn - O_PFN_DOWN(PHYS_OFFSET);
>         max_pfn = memend_pfn - O_PFN_DOWN(PHYS_OFFSET);
> _


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