On 03/03/2013 01:01 PM, Ric Mason wrote: > On 02/28/2013 02:13 PM, Simon Jeons wrote: >> Hi Jiang, >> >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1781291/ >> >> You said that the bootmem allocator doesn't touch *highmem pages*, so highmem zones' managed_pages is set to the accurate value "spanned_pages - absent_pages" in function free_area_init_core() and won't be updated anymore. Why it doesn't touch *highmem pages*? Could you point out where you figure out this? > > Yeah, why bootmem doesn't touch highmem pages? The patch is buggy. :( > Actually I found that assumption may be wrong for some architectures, and I'm working on a patchset to clean it up. BTW, what's the issue with that patch? Regards! Gerry -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>