[PATCH] [v3] powerpc/4xx: work around CHIP11 errata in a more PAGE_SIZE-friendly way
Hollis Blanchard
hollisb at us.ibm.com
Tue Nov 25 07:07:15 EST 2008
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 16:09 -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>
> If this is all too much, then I'm close to giving up and burning a
> 64KB page, which requires only ALIGN_DOWN() in the kernel.
ppc: force memory size to be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
Ensure that total memory size is page-aligned, because otherwise
bootmem.c gets upset.
This error case was triggered by using 64 KiB pages in the kernel while
arch/powerpc/boot/4xx.c arbitrarily reduced the amount of memory by 4096 (to
work around the "CHIP11" errata which affects the last 256 bytes of physical memory).
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb at us.ibm.com>
---
This is on a common code path, and lmb_enforce_memory_limit() will now
always take action, so wider testing would be good.
This patch supercedes http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/8211/ .
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -1200,6 +1200,11 @@ void __init early_init_devtree(void *par
early_reserve_mem();
phyp_dump_reserve_mem();
+ /* Ensure that total memory size is page-aligned, because otherwise
+ * bootmem.c gets upset. */
+ lmb_analyze();
+ memory_limit = lmb_phys_mem_size() & PAGE_MASK;
+
lmb_enforce_memory_limit(memory_limit);
lmb_analyze();
--
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center
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