Re: is_highmem() and WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL (was: Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1)

[Andy Whitcroft]

--- Geert wrote:
> | --- reference/mm/page_alloc.c	2004-07-07 18:08:56.000000000 +0100
> | +++ current/mm/page_alloc.c	2004-07-07 18:10:15.000000000 +0100
> | @@ -1421,7 +1421,7 @@ void __init memmap_init_zone(struct page
> |  		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
> |  #ifdef WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL
> |  		/* The shift won't overflow because ZONE_NORMAL is below 4G. */
> | -		if (zone != ZONE_HIGHMEM)
> | +		if (!is_highmem(zone))
> |  			set_page_address(page, __va(start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT));
> |  #endif
> |  		start_pfn++;
> 
> The above change is incorrect, since zone is an unsigned long, while
> is_highmem() takes a struct zone *.

My bad.  I was stupidly assuming that this was used then ZONE_HIGHMEM was
not enabled.  This should apply on top of 2.6.8-rc1 and repair the damage.

-apw

=== 8< ===
Should be applying is_highmem() to a zone.

Revision: $Rev: 386 $

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

diff -X /home/apw/brief/lib/vdiff.excl -rupN reference/mm/page_alloc.c current/mm/page_alloc.c
--- reference/mm/page_alloc.c	2004-07-12 13:15:57.000000000 +0100
+++ current/mm/page_alloc.c	2004-07-12 14:37:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ void __init memmap_init_zone(struct page
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
 #ifdef WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL
 		/* The shift won't overflow because ZONE_NORMAL is below 4G. */
-		if (!is_highmem(zone))
+		if (!is_highmem(page_zone(page)))
 			set_page_address(page, __va(start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT));
 #endif
 		start_pfn++;
-
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