Re: [PATCH] do not count pages in holes with sparsemem

[Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>]

On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:12:11 +0200, Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Ok thinking more about it, some platforms may have physical memory
> that doesn't start at 0. MIPS doesn't support such platform though it
> should be fairly easy. In that case __pa should be defined as:
> 
>       #define __pa(x) ((unsigned long) (x) - PAGE_OFFSET + 
> PFN_PHYS(ARCH_PFN_OFFSET))
> 
> and use in your patch:
> 
>       free_area_init_node(0, NODE_DATA(0), zones_size, ARCH_PFN_OFFSET, 
> zholes_size);
> 
> So I would recommend to use ARCH_PFN_OFFSET.

Well, currently ARCH_PFN_OFFSET is defined in
asm-generic/memory_model.h only for FLATMEM case.  I think other
memory models do not need it because it is just a case that a first
hole begins at pfn 0.

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Atsushi Nemoto