[PATCH] ehea: Add hugepage detection

Jeff Garzik jeff at garzik.org
Tue Oct 28 05:52:32 EST 2008


Thomas Klein wrote:
> All kernel memory which is used for kernel/hardware data transfer must be registered
> with firmware using "memory regions". 16GB hugepages may not be part of a memory region
> due to firmware restrictions.
> This patch modifies the walk_memory_resource callback fn to filter hugepages and add
> only standard memory to the busmap which is later on used for MR registration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein at de.ibm.com>
> ---
> This reworked patch accounts for comments I got. It's based on davem's net-2.6.git.

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