[PATCH] convert node/zone_start_paddr to pfns
I've had ia32-discontigmem under test for a month, uneventfully. Possibly because I don't have a machine to test it on.... A major part of this work is a general move to convert the low-level memory management to consistently use pageframe numbers. It's a bit schizo at present.. This patch was written by Martin Bligh. A version of this patch is in the 2.4 aa tree. It changes the unsigned longs node_start_paddr and zone_start_paddr to page frame numbers. This is necessary because a PAE address is 36 bits and cannot be represented in an unsigned long. - The per-node physical memory start address node_start_paddr becomes a pfn, node_start_pfn. - The per-zone physical memory start address zone_start_paddr becomes a pfn, zone_start_pfn. - free_area_init_node() takes a pfn rather than a physical address. Patricia has tested this patch on the following configurations: UP, SMP, SMP PAE, multiquad, multiquad PAE, multiquad DISCONTIGMEM, multiquad DISCONTIGMEM PAE.
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