Anybody running on a machine with some zone empty (<16Mbyte boxes (PDAs),
<1G x86 with highmem enabled kernel or an arch with an iommu like alpha)
probably noticed that the MM was unusable on those hardware
configurations (as I also incidentally mentioned a few times on l-k in
the last months).
Yesterday I checked and here it is the fix (included in 2.4.5aa3).
--- 2.4.5aa3/mm/vmscan.c.~1~ Sat May 26 04:03:50 2001
+++ 2.4.5aa3/mm/vmscan.c Tue Jun 5 03:41:06 2001
@@ -791,6 +788,8 @@
for(i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
int zone_shortage;
zone_t *zone = pgdat->node_zones+ i;
+ if (!zone->size)
+ continue;
zone_shortage = zone->pages_high;
zone_shortage -= zone->inactive_dirty_pages;
Andrea
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