revert "x86_64: allocate sparsemem memmap above 4G"
commitedc0636c313992570c6b10020111a5e2f0ccb6f8
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:07:35 +0000 (1 19:07 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:22:59 +0000 (16 08:22 -0800)
treea598215ed5a839174db3fff413c2d74213bfdc85
parent963bbb3b5f669e3dcf46ba423d65db5c35a007a0
revert "x86_64: allocate sparsemem memmap above 4G"

Reverted upstream by commit 6a22c57b8d2a62dea7280a6b2ac807a539ef0716

Revert this commit:

commit 2e1c49db4c640b35df13889b86b9d62215ade4b6
Author: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Date:   Fri Jun 1 00:46:28 2007 -0700

x86_64: allocate sparsemem memmap above 4G

This reverts commit 2e1c49db4c640b35df13889b86b9d62215ade4b6.

First off, testing in Fedora has shown it to cause boot failures,
bisected down by Martin Ebourne, and reported by Dave Jobes.  So the
commit will likely be reverted in the 2.6.23 stable kernels.

Secondly, in the 2.6.24 model, x86-64 has now grown support for
SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, which disables the relevant code anyway, so while the
bug is not visible any more, it's become invisible due to the code just
being irrelevant and no longer enabled on the only architecture that
this ever affected.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Martin Ebourne <fedora@ebourne.me.uk>
Cc: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
include/linux/bootmem.h
mm/sparse.c