From ac71d12c990526b01ef6cfe50907ef8530a30331 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 15:17:28 +0200 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/asm-x86_64/e820.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/e820.h b/include/asm-x86_64/e820.h index 93b51df5168..670a3388e70 100644 --- a/include/asm-x86_64/e820.h +++ b/include/asm-x86_64/e820.h @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ extern void __init parse_memopt(char *p, char **end); extern void __init parse_memmapopt(char *p, char **end); extern struct e820map e820; + +extern unsigned ebda_addr, ebda_size; #endif/*!__ASSEMBLY__*/ #endif/*__E820_HEADER*/ -- cgit v1.2.3