[PATCH] powerpc: Fix assmption of end_of_DRAM() returns end address

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Jun 6 08:20:58 EST 2012


From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:17:39 +1000

> On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 19:25 +0530, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
>> memblock_end_of_DRAM() returns end_address + 1, not end address.
>> While some code assumes that it returns end address.
> 
> Shouldn't we instead fix it the other way around ? IE, make
> memblock_end_of_DRAM() does what the name implies, which is to return
> the last byte of DRAM, and fix the -other- callers not to make bad
> assumptions ?

That was my impression too when I saw this patch.


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