On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:44:25AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And special mention for Brian Gerst, who figured out and fixed a x86 page
> table initialization fix that would leave old machines unable to boot
> 2.5.x. That might explain a number of the "I can't run 2.5.x" that weren't
> seen by developers (most developers tend to have hardware studly enough
> that they'd never see the problem).
We can get most hardware to boot a little faster if we add this part of
the patch which seems to have been dropped out, comparing to Brian's
patch from 6 months ago.
--- linux-2.5.57/arch/i386/mm/init.c 2003-01-13 20:17:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.5.57/arch/i386/mm/init.c 2003-01-14 00:01:19.000000000 +0200
@@ -112,9 +112,7 @@
pmd = pmd_offset(pgd, vaddr);
for (; (pmd_ofs < PTRS_PER_PMD) && (vaddr != end); pmd++, pmd_ofs++) {
- if (pmd_none(*pmd))
- one_page_table_init(pmd);
-
+ one_page_table_init(pmd);
vaddr += PMD_SIZE;
}
pmd_ofs = 0;
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