On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:14:26PM +0100, Tomasz Figa wrote: > Hi Olof, > > On Thursday 20 of December 2012 11:56:59 Olof Johansson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > The size of memory bank should be under 256MB, because current > > > section size is 256MB on EXYNOS SoCs. This patch fixes it. > > > > This makes no sense. You don't have to split up memory ranges, the > > code should be made to handle it instead. > > It's not Exynos code which causes the problem. Sparsemem initialization > relies on the fact that initial amount of structures to described memory > equals to maximum section size which is defined per arch (e.g. > ARCH_EXYNOS). > > > What's the actual bug caused by this? The description is vague. > > The kernel panics early on NULL pointer dereference in memory > initialization. And of course the debugging information is included in the commit log so that others can see what problem you're experiencing and make a decision whether the proposed solution is the right one... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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