[Patch] memparse should return long long

Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
15 Jan 2001 09:22:19 +0100


Hi,

The following patch lets memparse return a long long. This is needed
to use mem= on highmem machines.

Greetings
Christoph

diff -uNr 2.4.0-ac/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c 2.4.0-ac-memparse/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
--- 2.4.0-ac/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Tue Jan 2 21:57:54 2001
+++ 2.4.0-ac-memparse/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Sun Jan 14 22:21:52 2001
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@
* blow away any automatically generated
* size
*/
- unsigned long start_at, mem_size;
+ unsigned long long start_at, mem_size;

if (usermem == 0) {
/* first time in: zap the whitelist
diff -uNr 2.4.0-ac/include/linux/kernel.h 2.4.0-ac-memparse/include/linux/kernel.h
--- 2.4.0-ac/include/linux/kernel.h Sun Dec 17 12:54:01 2000
+++ 2.4.0-ac-memparse/include/linux/kernel.h Sun Jan 14 22:21:52 2001
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
extern int vsprintf(char *buf, const char *, va_list);
extern int get_option(char **str, int *pint);
extern char *get_options(char *str, int nints, int *ints);
-extern unsigned long memparse(char *ptr, char **retptr);
+extern unsigned long long memparse(char *ptr, char **retptr);
extern void dev_probe_lock(void);
extern void dev_probe_unlock(void);

diff -uNr 2.4.0-ac/lib/cmdline.c 2.4.0-ac-memparse/lib/cmdline.c
--- 2.4.0-ac/lib/cmdline.c Mon Aug 28 11:42:45 2000
+++ 2.4.0-ac-memparse/lib/cmdline.c Mon Jan 15 09:06:14 2001
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@
* megabyte, or one gigabyte, respectively.
*/

-unsigned long memparse (char *ptr, char **retptr)
+unsigned long long memparse (char *ptr, char **retptr)
{
- unsigned long ret = simple_strtoul (ptr, retptr, 0);
+ unsigned long long ret = simple_strtoul (ptr, retptr, 0);

switch (**retptr) {
case 'G':
-
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