Re: [PATCH] x86, NUMA: Fix empty memblk detection innuma_cleanup_meminfo()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Sat Apr 30 2011 - 08:35:35 EST


On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 02:33:30PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> numa_cleanup_meminfo() trims each memblk between low (0) and high
> (max_pfn) limits and discard empty ones. However, the emptiness
> detection incorrectly used equality test. If the start of a memblk is
> higher than max_pfn, it is empty but fails the equality test and
> doesn't get discarded.
>
> Fix it by using >= instead of ==.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> So, something like this. Does this fix the problem you see?

Ooh, this is before the code is moved to numa.c, so please test the
previous patch against numa.c.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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