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SubjectRe: [patch] bootmem-2.3.25-A0
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Ingo Molnar writes:
> i've fixed this already in my tree (patch attached) - but i do not think
> this should make any difference. bootmem.c does not deal with vmalloced or
> ioremapped memory, so __pa/__va should be identical to virt_to_phys /
> phys_to_virt.

However, the attached patch would totally stuff certainly the ARM architecture
and quite possibly any other architecture whos physical memory did not start
at zero - the bitmap would become unnecessarily huge.

There are two ways of fixing this:

1. Define something which returns an offset into physical memory
2. Pass a parameter into init_bootmem which is the start of physical
memory and use the virt_to_phys routines.

As an aside, shouldn't __va be renamed to __phys_to_virt if it is a
lower-level version of phys_to_virt to follow the apparant standard
naming conventions in the Linux kernel?
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