[PATCH] ppc64: Fix a typo in the code that reserves memory at boot
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Oct 16 14:55:45 EST 2004
Hi !
The code that marks memory regions as "reserved" early during boot
has a typo (doing incorrect rounding of the top address) which can
cause some areas to not be properly reserved. That may explain some
cases of initrd corruption reported recently.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
===== arch/ppc64/kernel/prom_init.c 1.2 vs edited =====
--- 1.2/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom_init.c 2004-09-27 19:12:49 +10:00
+++ edited/arch/ppc64/kernel/prom_init.c 2004-10-16 14:53:28 +10:00
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@
* dumb and just copy this entire array to the boot params
*/
base = _ALIGN_DOWN(base, PAGE_SIZE);
- top = _ALIGN_DOWN(top, PAGE_SIZE);
+ top = _ALIGN_UP(top, PAGE_SIZE);
size = top - base;
if (cnt >= (MEM_RESERVE_MAP_SIZE - 1))
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