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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2006-05-08 15:17:28 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-05-08 09:34:56 -0700
commitac71d12c990526b01ef6cfe50907ef8530a30331 (patch)
tree30d00436366c107eeac83e1af12b3e09a41e7607 /arch/x86_64/kernel
parent8b1ffe9550e71224c43d8c754245bd76f4ea9bb8 (diff)
[PATCH] x86_64: Avoid EBDA area in early boot allocator
Based on analysis&patch from Robert Hentosch Observed on a Dell PE6850 with 16GB The problem occurs very early on, when the kernel allocates space for the temporary memory map called bootmap. The bootmap overlaps the EBDA region. EBDA region is not historically reserved in the e820 mapping. When the bootmap is freed it marks the EBDA region as usable. If you notice in setup.c there is already code to work around the EBDA in reserve_ebda_region(), this check however occurs after the bootmap is allocated and doesn't prevent the bootmap from using this range. AK: I redid the original patch. Thanks also to Jan Beulich for spotting some mistakes. Cc: Robert_Hentosch@dell.com Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c6
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c30
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c
index 62776c07cff..222b5b46d2b 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ static inline int bad_addr(unsigned long *addrp, unsigned long size)
*addrp = __pa_symbol(&_end);
return 1;
}
+
+ if (last >= ebda_addr && addr < ebda_addr + ebda_size) {
+ *addrp = ebda_addr + ebda_size;
+ return 1;
+ }
+
/* XXX ramdisk image here? */
return 0;
}
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
index ebc3c33b1c6..f0870bef24d 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -571,17 +571,28 @@ static inline void copy_edd(void)
#endif
#define EBDA_ADDR_POINTER 0x40E
-static void __init reserve_ebda_region(void)
+
+unsigned __initdata ebda_addr;
+unsigned __initdata ebda_size;
+
+static void discover_ebda(void)
{
- unsigned int addr;
- /**
+ /*
* there is a real-mode segmented pointer pointing to the
* 4K EBDA area at 0x40E
*/
- addr = *(unsigned short *)phys_to_virt(EBDA_ADDR_POINTER);
- addr <<= 4;
- if (addr)
- reserve_bootmem_generic(addr, PAGE_SIZE);
+ ebda_addr = *(unsigned short *)EBDA_ADDR_POINTER;
+ ebda_addr <<= 4;
+
+ ebda_size = *(unsigned short *)(unsigned long)ebda_addr;
+
+ /* Round EBDA up to pages */
+ if (ebda_size == 0)
+ ebda_size = 1;
+ ebda_size <<= 10;
+ ebda_size = round_up(ebda_size + (ebda_addr & ~PAGE_MASK), PAGE_SIZE);
+ if (ebda_size > 64*1024)
+ ebda_size = 64*1024;
}
void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
@@ -627,6 +638,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
check_efer();
+ discover_ebda();
+
init_memory_mapping(0, (end_pfn_map << PAGE_SHIFT));
dmi_scan_machine();
@@ -669,7 +682,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
reserve_bootmem_generic(0, PAGE_SIZE);
/* reserve ebda region */
- reserve_ebda_region();
+ if (ebda_addr)
+ reserve_bootmem_generic(ebda_addr, ebda_size);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
/*