Re: [PATCH] x86_32: fix regression caused by trim ram according tomtrr on system with 4G more RAM

[Ingo Molnar]

* Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> [PATCH] x86_32: fix regression caused by trim ram according to mtrr on system with 4G more RAM
> 
> Pravel report:
> "
> The commit
> 
>         093af8d7f0ba3c6be1485973508584ef081e9f93
>         x86_32: trim memory by updating e820
> 
> broke my e1000 card: on loading driver says that
> 
>         e1000: probe of 0000:04:03.0 failed with error -5
> 
> and the interface doesn't appear.
> "
> 
> on 32 bit kernel, base will overflow when try to do PAGE_SHIFT. and 
> highest_addr will always less 4G.
> 
> so use pfn instead of address to avoid overflow when more than 4g
>  ram installed on 32bit kernel
> Many thanks for Pavel Emelyanov to report and test it.

thanks guys, applied.

	Ingo
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