I would like to submit the following change to arch/mips/kernel/setup.c. The start_pfn is not correct in case CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK is slected. The ramdisk pages are added twice. The diff -Naur output is attached to the mail. Thanks Ranjan <<diff.output.txt>>
diff -Naur linux-dev/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c linux-dev-patch/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c --- linux-dev/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c Wed Dec 18 15:40:14 2002 +++ linux-dev-patch/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c Mon Mar 24 16:13:07 2003 @@ -255,6 +255,16 @@ int i; #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD +#ifdef CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK + /* + * Embedded ramdisk -> _end after the ramdisk so no need to add these + * pages again + * + * Partially used pages are not usable - thus + * we are rounding upwards. + */ + start_pfn = PFN_UP(__pa(&_end)); +#else tmp = (((unsigned long)&_end + PAGE_SIZE-1) & PAGE_MASK) - 8; if (tmp < (unsigned long)&_end) tmp += PAGE_SIZE; @@ -264,6 +274,7 @@ initrd_end = initrd_start + initrd_header[1]; } start_pfn = PFN_UP(__pa((&_end)+(initrd_end - initrd_start) + PAGE_SIZE)); +#endif #else /* * Partially used pages are not usable - thus