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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/mm: Fix copy&paste error in comments
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On 20/4/2021 1:34 pm, Cao jin wrote:
> Direct page mapping in bottom-up way will allocate memory from low
> address for page structures in a range, which is the *bottom*,
> not the *end*.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cao jin <jojing64@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
> index e26f5c5c6565..bc2f871c75f1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
> @@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ static void __init memory_map_bottom_up(unsigned long map_start,
> /*
> * We start from the bottom (@map_start) and go to the top (@map_end).
> * The memblock_find_in_range() gets us a block of RAM from the
> - * end of RAM in [min_pfn_mapped, max_pfn_mapped) used as new pages
> + * bottom of RAM in [min_pfn_mapped, max_pfn_mapped) used as new pages
> * for page table.
> */

FYI: There is exactly the same sentence in memory_map_top_down(), looks
like a copy & paste error to me.

--
Cao jin

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