On Thursday 07 February 2008 02:20:35 pm Yinghai Lu wrote:
<snip>
> > Cool! Yes, Yinghai Lu's patch indeed is the same as mine and its really
> > surprising that we've used the same variable name too! :)
>
> minor difference
> +               trim_start = highest_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
> +               trim_size = end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
>
> could cause some problem with 32 bit kernel when mem > 4g.
> becase highest_pfn and end_pfn is unsigned long aka 32 bit ...could
> overflow.
>
> so need to assign thtem to trim_start/trim_end at first
> or
> +               trim_start = (u64)highest_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
> +               trim_size = (u64)end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
>

Yea right.. Thanks for pointing that out.

-- 
regards,
balaji rao
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