From: Yinghai Lu Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 07:37:34 +0000 (-0700) Subject: x86: Allow 1MB of slack between the e820 map and SRAT, not 4GB X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0964b0562bb9c93194e852b47bab2397b9e11c18;p=linux-beck.git x86: Allow 1MB of slack between the e820 map and SRAT, not 4GB It is expected that there might be slight differences between the e820 map and the SRAT table and the intention was that 1MB of slack be allowed. The calculation comparing e820ram and pxmram assumes the units are bytes, when they are in fact pages. This means 4GB of slack is being allowed, not 1MB. This patch makes the correct comparison. comment is from Mel. [ Impact: don't accept buggy SRATs that could dump up to 4G of RAM ] Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrew Morton LKML-Reference: <4A03E13E.6050107@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c index c7a18aaccf8d..87b45bff250d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c @@ -346,8 +346,8 @@ static int __init nodes_cover_memory(const struct bootnode *nodes) } e820ram = max_pfn - (e820_hole_size(0, max_pfn<>PAGE_SHIFT); - /* We seem to lose 3 pages somewhere. Allow a bit of slack. */ - if ((long)(e820ram - pxmram) >= 1*1024*1024) { + /* We seem to lose 3 pages somewhere. Allow 1M of slack. */ + if ((long)(e820ram - pxmram) >= (1<<(20 - PAGE_SHIFT))) { printk(KERN_ERR "SRAT: PXMs only cover %luMB of your %luMB e820 RAM. Not used.\n", (pxmram << PAGE_SHIFT) >> 20,