Commit for mm/page_alloc.c breaks boot process on my machine

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 10:23 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On (05/02/08 11:01), Benjamin Herrenschmidt didst pronounce:
> > 
> > > 
> > > It's a virtual address so it depends on the value of CONFIG_KERNEL_START
> > > as to whether this is a user program address or not.
> > 
> > Shouldn't it be PAGE_OFFSET ? I mean, CONFIG_KERNEL_START should work
> > on powerpc, but still...
> > 
> 
> mel at arnold:~/git/linux-2.6$ grep PAGE_OFFSET include/asm-ppc/page.h
> #define PAGE_OFFSET     CONFIG_KERNEL_START

On powerpc sure.... but it's still dodgy I think.

Ben.