[PATCH 2/3] Remove redundancy between get_memory_ranges_proc_iomem() and get_memory_ranges_sysfs()

[Bernhard Walle]

Hi,

* Simon Horman [2008-07-09 10:41]:
>
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 04:43:41PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > With the previous patch, we have a duplication between that both functions
> > for following tasks:
> > 
> >  - don't report the interrupt table as RAM,
> >  - set the mem_min and mem_max limits for kdump.
> > 
> > This patch removes that redundancy into the function get_memory_ranges()
> > that calls both functions internally.
> 
> these patches seem fine to me, but I am still having minor troubles
> with missing defines. For the record, I am seeing the problems with
> gcc-3.4.5 + glibc-2.3.6. Yes, I know this is old, but it would
> be nice if this minor issue didn't break it.

Yes, of course, I just cannot reproduce it, even with current Debian
and gcc 3.4 ...

> 1. The snippet below looks good, but it needs to be included
>    in or berfore " [PATCH 1/3] Parse /sys/firmware/memmap".

Should be fixed now.

> > diff --git a/kexec/firmware_memmap.c b/kexec/firmware_memmap.c
> > index cdac6f3..2ad450d 100644
> > --- a/kexec/firmware_memmap.c
> > +++ b/kexec/firmware_memmap.c
> > @@ -31,6 +31,13 @@
> >  #include "firmware_memmap.h"
> >  #include "kexec.h"
> >  
> > +/*
> > + * If the system is too old for ULLONG_MAX, define it here.
> > + */
> > +#ifndef ULLONG_MAX
> > +#    define ULLONG_MAX (~0ULL)
> > +#endif
> > +
> >  /**
> >   * The full path to the sysfs interface that provides the memory map.
> >   */
> 
> 2. I did not realise this at the time that I sent my previous response,
>    but LLONG_MAX is also a problem. I believe that the following
>    code, based on your code above, fixes the problem.

Should also be fixed now.

> Just for good measure, I have also verified, using the same method, that
> your code gives 18446744073709551615 (=2^64-1), which matches the value
> internally provided by gcc-4.3.1 + glibc-2.7.

Thanks for your testing!


Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development