[PATCH] ARM: Only initialize max_mapnr when using flatmem
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Jan 8 11:46:40 EST 2013
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 03:51:54PM -0400, Michael Spang wrote:
> The expression used to initialize max_mapnr is not appropriate for
> sparsemem, since mem_map is NULL and pfn_to_page() only works on valid
> pages. This patch leaves max_mapnr uninitialized for sparsemem.
>
> For flatmem, the expression simplifies to copying max_pfn.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Spang <spang at chromium.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/mm/init.c | 4 +++-
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> I'm not sure we need this variable it all - it looks like there are no
> users.
Indeed, I've just confirmed that. I suggest we just get rid of it instead,
like this:
arch/arm/mm/init.c | 6 +++++-
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
index ad722f1..bd93bdc 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
@@ -600,7 +600,11 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
extern u32 itcm_end;
#endif
- max_mapnr = pfn_to_page(max_pfn + PHYS_PFN_OFFSET) - mem_map;
+ /*
+ * We used to initialize max_mapnr here to be the same as max_pfn,
+ * but as nothing uses it (we don't use the generic pfn_valid())
+ * this has become unnecessary.
+ */
/* this will put all unused low memory onto the freelists */
free_unused_memmap(&meminfo);
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