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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2009-01-30 14:50:57 -0800 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2009-01-30 14:50:57 -0800 |
| commit | 9b7ed8faa034fc2d350e2eff5c68680eb5c43a07 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c94c34ad30e312604c1ce4f08ab6631b64a94f5 /arch/x86/mm/pat.c | |
| parent | 6522869c34664dd5f05a0a327e93915b1281c90d (diff) | |
| parent | c43e0e46adf79c321ed3fbf0351e1005fb8a2413 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'core/percpu' into x86/paravirt
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 43 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c index 8b08fb95527..7b61036427d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c @@ -333,11 +333,23 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned long req_type, req_type & _PAGE_CACHE_MASK); } - is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end); - if (is_range_ram == 1) - return reserve_ram_pages_type(start, end, req_type, new_type); - else if (is_range_ram < 0) - return -EINVAL; + if (new_type) + *new_type = actual_type; + + /* + * For legacy reasons, some parts of the physical address range in the + * legacy 1MB region is treated as non-RAM (even when listed as RAM in + * the e820 tables). So we will track the memory attributes of this + * legacy 1MB region using the linear memtype_list always. + */ + if (end >= ISA_END_ADDRESS) { + is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end); + if (is_range_ram == 1) + return reserve_ram_pages_type(start, end, req_type, + new_type); + else if (is_range_ram < 0) + return -EINVAL; + } new = kmalloc(sizeof(struct memtype), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new) @@ -347,9 +359,6 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned long req_type, new->end = end; new->type = actual_type; - if (new_type) - *new_type = actual_type; - spin_lock(&memtype_lock); if (cached_entry && start >= cached_start) @@ -437,11 +446,19 @@ int free_memtype(u64 start, u64 end) if (is_ISA_range(start, end - 1)) return 0; - is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end); - if (is_range_ram == 1) - return free_ram_pages_type(start, end); - else if (is_range_ram < 0) - return -EINVAL; + /* + * For legacy reasons, some parts of the physical address range in the + * legacy 1MB region is treated as non-RAM (even when listed as RAM in + * the e820 tables). So we will track the memory attributes of this + * legacy 1MB region using the linear memtype_list always. + */ + if (end >= ISA_END_ADDRESS) { + is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end); + if (is_range_ram == 1) + return free_ram_pages_type(start, end); + else if (is_range_ram < 0) + return -EINVAL; + } spin_lock(&memtype_lock); list_for_each_entry(entry, &memtype_list, nd) { |