On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Aaron Durbin wrote:
Fix partial page check in e820_register_active_regions to ensure
partial pages are
not being marked as active in the memory pool.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
This bug is in 2.6.19-rc5 and the patch will be needed for 2.6.19.
Thanks Aaron.
---
This was causing a machine to reboot w/ an area in the e820 that was less
than the page size because the upper address was being use to mark a hole as
active in the memory pool.
arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c
index a75c829..855b561 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ e820_register_active_regions(int nid, un
>>
PAGE_SHIFT;
/* Skip map entries smaller than a page */
- if (ei_startpfn > ei_endpfn)
+ if (ei_startpfn >= ei_endpfn)
continue;
/* Check if end_pfn_map should be updated */
--
1.4.2.GIT
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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