Patch "x86/e820: Don't merge consecutive E820_PRAM ranges" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/e820: Don't merge consecutive E820_PRAM ranges

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-e820-don-t-merge-consecutive-e820_pram-ranges.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 23446cb66c073b827779e5eb3dec301623299b32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 11:01:48 -0700
Subject: x86/e820: Don't merge consecutive E820_PRAM ranges

From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

commit 23446cb66c073b827779e5eb3dec301623299b32 upstream.

Commit:

  917db484dc6a ("x86/boot: Fix kdump, cleanup aborted E820_PRAM max_pfn manipulation")

... fixed up the broken manipulations of max_pfn in the presence of
E820_PRAM ranges.

However, it also broke the sanitize_e820_map() support for not merging
E820_PRAM ranges.

Re-introduce the enabling to keep resource boundaries between
consecutive defined ranges. Otherwise, for example, an environment that
boots with memmap=2G!8G,2G!10G will end up with a single 4G /dev/pmem0
device instead of a /dev/pmem0 and /dev/pmem1 device 2G in size.

Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yizhan@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Fixes: 917db484dc6a ("x86/boot: Fix kdump, cleanup aborted E820_PRAM max_pfn manipulation")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147629530854.10618.10383744751594021268.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/e820.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ int __init sanitize_e820_map(struct e820
 		 * continue building up new bios map based on this
 		 * information
 		 */
-		if (current_type != last_type) {
+		if (current_type != last_type || current_type == E820_PRAM) {
 			if (last_type != 0)	 {
 				new_bios[new_bios_entry].size =
 					change_point[chgidx]->addr - last_addr;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.j.williams@intel.com are

queue-4.8/x86-e820-don-t-merge-consecutive-e820_pram-ranges.patch