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authorYinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>2008-02-22 13:37:26 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-17 17:40:49 +0200
commit1e934dda0c77c8ad13fdda02074f2cfcea118a56 (patch)
tree83c149b09859f143eb81e2447bcdd78e54e311f1 /arch/x86/boot
parent3def3d6ddf43dbe20c00c3cbc38dfacc8586998f (diff)
x86: insert_resorce for lapic addr after e820_reserve_resources
when comparing the e820 direct from BIOS, and the one by kexec: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: - BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000097400 (usable) + BIOS-e820: 0000000000000100 - 0000000000097400 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000097400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000dffa0000 (usable) - BIOS-e820: 00000000dffae000 - 00000000dffb0000 type 9 + BIOS-e820: 00000000dffae000 - 00000000dffb0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000dffb0000 - 00000000dffbe000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000dffbe000 - 00000000dfff0000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000dfff0000 - 00000000e0000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) - BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) =======> that is the local apic address... somewhere we lost it BIOS-e820: 00000000ff700000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000004020000000 (usable) found one entry about reserved is missing for the kernel by kexec. it turns out init_apic_mappings is called before e820_reserve_resources in setup_arch. but e820_reserve_resources is using request_resource. it will not handle the conflicts. there are three ways to fix it: 1. change request_resource in e820_reserve_resources to to insert_resource 2. move init_apic_mappings after e820_reserve_resources 3. use late_initcall to insert lapic resource. this patch is using method 3, that is less intrusive. in later version could consider to use method 1. before patch fed20000-ffffffff : PCI Bus #00 fee00000-fee00fff : Local APIC fefff000-feffffff : pnp 00:09 ff700000-ffffffff : reserved with patch will get map in first kernel fed20000-ffffffff : PCI Bus #00 fee00000-fee00fff : Local APIC fee00000-fee00fff : reserved fefff000-feffffff : pnp 00:09 ff700000-ffffffff : reserved Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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