sparsemem: fix oops in x86_64 show_mem
We aren't sampling for holes in memory. Thus we encounter a section hole with empty section map pointer for SPARSEMEM and OOPs for show_mem. This issue has been seen in 2.6.21, current git and current mm. This patch is for 2.6.21 stable. It was tested against sparsemem. Previous to commit f0a5a58a memory_present was called for node_start_pfn to node_end_pfn. This would cover the hole(s) with reserved pages and valid sections. Most SPARSEMEM supported arches do a pfn_valid check in show_mem before computing the page structure address. This issue was brought to my attention on IRC by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo at acme@redhat.com. Thanks to Arnaldo for testing. Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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