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x86: sanitize user specified e820 memmap values
authorVladimir Berezniker <vmpn@hitechman.com>
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:30:46 +0000 (13:30 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:30:46 +0000 (13:30 +0100)
commitb3ca74a2bfc66262d21443b160815eb26d6699e6
treea2e6e99b7c650e7275958992d5fecabbc2243afa
parentefd1ca52d04d2f6df337a3332cee56cd60e6d4c4
x86: sanitize user specified e820 memmap values

Sanitize user specified e820 memory ranges, using the same logic that is
applied to the values returned by the BIOS.  This ensures consistent
handling regardless of the source of the memory mappings.

Allows overriding portions of the memory map without specifying one in
it's entirety (memmap=exactmap).

E.g. marking a range of bad RAM as reserved with memmap=48M$528M

BIOS supplied range

BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fe80000 (usable)

becomes

user: 0000000000100000 - 0000000021000000 (usable)
user: 0000000021000000 - 0000000024000000 (reserved)
user: 0000000024000000 - 000000007fe80000 (usable)

Previously this did not work, as the original BIOS range was left
untouched while the user defined range was appended to the end of the
memory map.

[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Berezniker <vmpn@hitechman.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/kernel/e820_64.c