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* [PATCH] x86/mm: Fix copy&paste error in comments
@ 2021-04-20  5:34 Cao jin
  2021-04-22  9:29 ` Ts'o
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Cao jin @ 2021-04-20  5:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: x86, linux-kernel
  Cc: tglx, mingo, bp, hpa, dave.hansen, luto, peterz, Cao jin

Direct page mapping in bottom-up way will allocate memory from low
address for page structures in a range, which is the *bottom*,
not the *end*.

Signed-off-by: Cao jin <jojing64@gmail.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index e26f5c5c6565..bc2f871c75f1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ static void __init memory_map_bottom_up(unsigned long map_start,
 	/*
 	 * We start from the bottom (@map_start) and go to the top (@map_end).
 	 * The memblock_find_in_range() gets us a block of RAM from the
-	 * end of RAM in [min_pfn_mapped, max_pfn_mapped) used as new pages
+	 * bottom of RAM in [min_pfn_mapped, max_pfn_mapped) used as new pages
 	 * for page table.
 	 */
 	while (start < map_end) {
-- 
2.30.1


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* Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Fix copy&paste error in comments
  2021-04-20  5:34 [PATCH] x86/mm: Fix copy&paste error in comments Cao jin
@ 2021-04-22  9:29 ` Ts'o
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ts'o @ 2021-04-22  9:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: x86, linux-kernel; +Cc: tglx, mingo, bp, hpa, dave.hansen, luto, peterz


On 20/4/2021 1:34 pm, Cao jin wrote:
> Direct page mapping in bottom-up way will allocate memory from low
> address for page structures in a range, which is the *bottom*,
> not the *end*.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cao jin <jojing64@gmail.com>
> ---
>   arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
> index e26f5c5c6565..bc2f871c75f1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
> @@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ static void __init memory_map_bottom_up(unsigned long map_start,
>   	/*
>   	 * We start from the bottom (@map_start) and go to the top (@map_end).
>   	 * The memblock_find_in_range() gets us a block of RAM from the
> -	 * end of RAM in [min_pfn_mapped, max_pfn_mapped) used as new pages
> +	 * bottom of RAM in [min_pfn_mapped, max_pfn_mapped) used as new pages
>   	 * for page table.
>   	 */

FYI: There is exactly the same sentence in memory_map_top_down(), looks 
like a copy & paste error to me.

--
Cao jin

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