Testing seems to confirm that we do not need to handle the first memory block specially in do_init_bootmem. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft diffstat sparsemem-ppc64-flat-first-block-is-not-special --- diff -upN reference/arch/ppc64/mm/init.c current/arch/ppc64/mm/init.c --- reference/arch/ppc64/mm/init.c +++ current/arch/ppc64/mm/init.c @@ -612,14 +612,6 @@ void __init do_init_bootmem(void) unsigned long start, bootmap_pages; unsigned long total_pages = lmb_end_of_DRAM() >> PAGE_SHIFT; int boot_mapsize; - unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn; - /* - * Note presence of first (logical/coalasced) LMB which will - * contain RMO region - */ - start_pfn = lmb.memory.region[0].physbase >> PAGE_SHIFT; - end_pfn = start_pfn + (lmb.memory.region[0].size >> PAGE_SHIFT); - memory_present(0, start_pfn, end_pfn); /* * Find an area to use for the bootmem bitmap. Calculate the size of @@ -636,18 +628,19 @@ void __init do_init_bootmem(void) max_pfn = max_low_pfn; /* Add all physical memory to the bootmem map, mark each area - * present. The first block has already been marked present above. + * present. */ for (i=0; i < lmb.memory.cnt; i++) { unsigned long physbase, size; + unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn; physbase = lmb.memory.region[i].physbase; size = lmb.memory.region[i].size; - if (i) { - start_pfn = physbase >> PAGE_SHIFT; - end_pfn = start_pfn + (size >> PAGE_SHIFT); - memory_present(0, start_pfn, end_pfn); - } + + start_pfn = physbase >> PAGE_SHIFT; + end_pfn = start_pfn + (size >> PAGE_SHIFT); + memory_present(0, start_pfn, end_pfn); + free_bootmem(physbase, size); }