Re: [BUG 2.6.31-rc1] HIGHMEM64G causes hang in PCI init on 32-bit x86

From: Rolf Eike Beer
Date: Tue Jun 30 2009 - 11:08:36 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > Thanks, 2.6.31-rc1 vanilla (which didn't boot) plus this one does boot.
> > /proc/iomem now looks as follows:
>
> ... as it should. So far so good, and this is a real problem.
>
> However, there is something that really bothers me: *why does this help
> on Mikael's system, which is PAE and therefore has a 64-bit
> resource_size_t*? This whole patch should be a no-op! There is still
> something that doesn't make sense.
>
> The use of "unsigned long" in ram_alignment() will overflow after 2^52
> bytes, but again, that's not the issue here, since the highest "start"
> value we have is (0x2 << 32).

I assume you meant "2^32" and (0x1 << 32)?

Eike

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