Re: Reserved pages in PowerPC

2010-09-28 Thread Ankita Garg
Hi Ben, On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 07:52:31AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 17:38 +0530, Ankita Garg wrote: > > Thanks Ben for taking a look at this. So I checked the rtas messages > > on > > the serial console and see the following: > > > > instantiating rtas at 0x000

Re: Reserved pages in PowerPC

2010-09-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 17:38 +0530, Ankita Garg wrote: > Thanks Ben for taking a look at this. So I checked the rtas messages > on > the serial console and see the following: > > instantiating rtas at 0x0f632000... done > > Which does not correspond to the higher addresses that I see as >

Re: Reserved pages in PowerPC

2010-09-16 Thread Ankita Garg
Hi Ben, On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:04:24PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 10:53 +0530, Ankita Garg wrote: > > > > With some debugging I found that that section has reserved pages. On > > instrumenting the memblock_reserve() and reserve_bootmem() routines, I can > >

Re: Reserved pages in PowerPC

2010-09-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 10:53 +0530, Ankita Garg wrote: > > With some debugging I found that that section has reserved pages. On > instrumenting the memblock_reserve() and reserve_bootmem() routines, I can see > that many of the memory areas are reserved for kernel and initrd by the > memblock reser