Re: [PATCH] Make x86 latest boot with non-discontig boxes

["Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> wrote:
> Commit 0596152388e234efebce464355186ad9e16c8cb6
> broke my box, since it removes completely the call to
> memory_present() at e820 setup.
>
> It seems to be really not needed with discontig memory,
> but with flat and sparse, I get an early crash. The proposed patch
> moves the call memory_present() to setup_memory, the one
> present in setup_32.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
> CC: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
> index 2901042..841eb2f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
> @@ -388,6 +388,8 @@ static unsigned long __init setup_memory(void)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_FLATMEM
>        max_mapnr = num_physpages;
>  #endif
> +       memory_present(0, 0, max_pfn);
> +
>        printk(KERN_NOTICE "%ldMB LOWMEM available.\n",
>                        pages_to_mb(max_low_pfn));
>
> --
thanks

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/3/229
[PATCH] x86: change propagate_e820_map back to find_max_pfn -32bit - fix

already address that.

YH