[tip:x86/urgent] x86, 32-bit: Fix double accounting in reserve_top_address()

From: tip-bot for Jan Beulich
Date: Tue Aug 04 2009 - 11:32:51 EST


Commit-ID: 6abf65510944d33b47575d151c6b318993c8d2b5
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6abf65510944d33b47575d151c6b318993c8d2b5
Author: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:49:30 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:27:29 +0200

x86, 32-bit: Fix double accounting in reserve_top_address()

With VMALLOC_END included in the calculation of MAXMEM (as of
2.6.28) it is no longer correct to also bump __VMALLOC_RESERVE
in reserve_top_address(). Doing so results in needlessly small
lowmem.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <4A71DD2A020000780000D482@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>


---
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 1 -
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index af8f965..ed34f5e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -329,7 +329,6 @@ void __init reserve_top_address(unsigned long reserve)
printk(KERN_INFO "Reserving virtual address space above 0x%08x\n",
(int)-reserve);
__FIXADDR_TOP = -reserve - PAGE_SIZE;
- __VMALLOC_RESERVE += reserve;
#endif
}

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