On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:37:51PM -0500, Manish Ahuja wrote:
> Olof Johansson wrote:
> >> +static inline unsigned long phyp_dump_calculate_reserve_size(void)
> >> +{
> >> + unsigned long tmp;
> >> +
> >> + if (phyp_dump_info->phyp_dump_reserve_bootvar)
> >> + return phyp_dump_info->phyp_dump_reserve_bootvar;
> >> +
> >> + /* divide by 20 to get 5% of value */
> >> + tmp = lmb_end_of_DRAM();
> >> + do_div(tmp, 20);
> >> +
> >> + /* round it down in multiples of 256 */
> >> + tmp = tmp & ~0x000000001FFFFFFF;
> >
> > That's 512MB, isn't it?
>
> My calculations in the example I gave in the last email were wrong.
>
> In mentally did 10% instead of 5%. But the premise is same.
>
> So assuming 5% of some memory is 400 MB, it rounds it down to 256MB etc.
But 0x1fffffff is 512MB, not 256MB. So you're rounding it down to a
multiple of 512MB.
-Olof
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