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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-02-21 11:04:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-02-26 12:55:56 +0100 |
| commit | 88f3aec7afd9ae3e6f6d221801996b69aad1e3a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 676a32c7bd248a15f2926bc6dcd03ace4971d442 /arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | |
| parent | 3b57bc461fd5019aef4cfc77d4faf56ebe95449c (diff) | |
x86: fix spontaneous reboot with allyesconfig bzImage
recently the 64-bit allyesconfig bzImage kernel started spontaneously
rebooting during early bootup.
after a few fun hours spent with early init debugging, it turns out
that we've got this rather annoying limit on the size of the kernel
image:
#define KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE (40*1024*1024)
which limit my vmlinux just happened to pass:
text data bss dec hex filename
29703744 4222751 8646224 42572719 2899baf vmlinux
40 MB is 42572719 bytes, so my vmlinux was just 1.5% above this limit :-/
So it happily crashed right in head_64.S, which - as we all know - is
the most debuggable code in the whole architecture ;-)
So increase the limit to allow an up to 128MB kernel image to be mapped.
(should anyone be that crazy or lazy)
We have a full 4K of pagetable (level2_kernel_pgt) allocated for these
mappings already, so there's no RAM overhead and the limit was rather
pointless and arbitrary.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/init_64.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c index 6dbb0035c57..a02a14f0f32 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c @@ -172,8 +172,9 @@ set_pte_phys(unsigned long vaddr, unsigned long phys, pgprot_t prot) } /* - * The head.S code sets up the kernel high mapping from: - * __START_KERNEL_map to __START_KERNEL_map + KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE + * The head.S code sets up the kernel high mapping: + * + * from __START_KERNEL_map to __START_KERNEL_map + size (== _end-_text) * * phys_addr holds the negative offset to the kernel, which is added * to the compile time generated pmds. This results in invalid pmds up |