In sparse memory mode, I add "memmap = 200M$0x1033800000" into menu.lst, then I found the information in /proc/iomem is shown as: ................. fee00000-fee00fff : Local APIC fee00000-fee00fff : reserved fee00000-fee00fff : pnp 00:08 fff00000-ffffffff : reserved 100000000-10337fffff : System RAM 1033800000-103fffffff : reserved the return value of function pfn_valid, which checks whether pfn 0x1033800 is valid, is non-zero.Thus, it will thereafter run the function PageReserved(), which returns 0, I think the return value of 0 is wrong, as that pfn 0x1033800 is actually reserved. I probed further, and found that: the section [0x1033000000~0x1033AFFFFFF], including pfn 0x1033800, is initialized during kernel starting up. However, the page sturctures corresponding to that section are just partially initialzed, known as [0x1033000000~(max_pfn -1)](max_pfn = 0x1033800). Which means that, pfn 0x1033800 is valid(as function pfn_valid tells), but its related page structures are not initialized, which results in the problem shown above: pfn 0x1033800 is of type reserved, but the function PageReserved shows that it's not. i think in the funtion of pfn_valid should be add a condition: pfn >= max_pfn. Signed-off-by: Wulizhen <pss.wulizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 +- mm/nobootmem.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 835aa3d..c54284b 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ static inline struct mem_section *__pfn_to_section(unsigned long pfn) #ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID static inline int pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn) { - if (pfn_to_section_nr(pfn) >= NR_MEM_SECTIONS) + if (pfn >= max_pfn || pfn_to_section_nr(pfn) >= NR_MEM_SECTIONS) return 0; return valid_section(__nr_to_section(pfn_to_section_nr(pfn))); } diff --git a/mm/nobootmem.c b/mm/nobootmem.c index 04a9d94..7eb273e 100644 --- a/mm/nobootmem.c +++ b/mm/nobootmem.c @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(contig_page_data); unsigned long max_low_pfn; unsigned long min_low_pfn; unsigned long max_pfn; - +EXPORT_SYMBOL(max_pfn); static void * __init __alloc_memory_core_early(int nid, u64 size, u64 align, u64 goal, u64 limit) { ��.n������g����a����&ޖ)���)��h���&������梷�����Ǟ�m������)������^�����������v���O��zf������