Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758648AbYBMPAc (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:00:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753750AbYBMPAX (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:00:23 -0500 Received: from jdl.com ([208.123.74.7]:53732 "EHLO jdl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753023AbYBMPAW (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:00:22 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 2399 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:00:22 EST To: Kumar Gala cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix initial lmb add region with a non-zero base In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:37:27 CST." References: Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:20:07 -0600 From: Jon Loeliger Message-Id: X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 822 Lines: 25 So, like, the other day Kumar Gala mumbled: > If we add to an empty lmb region with a non-zero base we will not coalesce > the number of regions done to one. This causes problems on ppc32 for the s/done/down > memory region as its assumed to only have one region. > > We can fix this be easily specially casing the initial add to just replace > the dummy region. > > --- > > Posting this since Dave's looking a pulling the lmb code out into lib/ and > sharing it between powerpc and sparc. Did you want to S-o-b: this patch? Or was this just informational? Thanks, jdl -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/