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H A Dinit.c657e12fd Thu Oct 29 12:06:17 CDT 2009 Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> ARM: Fix sparsemem with SPARSEMEM_EXTREME enabled

When SPARSEMEM_EXTREME is enabled, memory_present() wants to use bootmem
to allocate data structures. However, we call memory_present() after
declaring memory to bootmem, but before we've reserved areas.

This leads to sparsemem data structures being overwritten later in the
kernel's initialization (when slab initializes.)

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
657e12fd Thu Oct 29 12:06:17 CDT 2009 Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> ARM: Fix sparsemem with SPARSEMEM_EXTREME enabled

When SPARSEMEM_EXTREME is enabled, memory_present() wants to use bootmem
to allocate data structures. However, we call memory_present() after
declaring memory to bootmem, but before we've reserved areas.

This leads to sparsemem data structures being overwritten later in the
kernel's initialization (when slab initializes.)

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>