From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86 fix, left over from the v4.1 cycle
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:37:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150622083758.GA10507@gmail.com> (raw)
Linus,
Please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus
# HEAD: 04c17341b42699a5859a8afa05e64ba08a4e5235 x86/boot: Fix overflow warning with 32-bit binutils
A build fix for certain (rare) variants of binutils that did not make it into v4.1.
Thanks,
Ingo
------------------>
Borislav Petkov (1):
x86/boot: Fix overflow warning with 32-bit binutils
arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 13 ++++++++++---
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
index 53eeb226657c..7e429c99c728 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
@@ -62,9 +62,16 @@
#define PAGE_TABLE_SIZE(pages) ((pages) / PTRS_PER_PGD)
#endif
-/* Number of possible pages in the lowmem region */
-LOWMEM_PAGES = (((1<<32) - __PAGE_OFFSET) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
-
+/*
+ * Number of possible pages in the lowmem region.
+ *
+ * We shift 2 by 31 instead of 1 by 32 to the left in order to avoid a
+ * gas warning about overflowing shift count when gas has been compiled
+ * with only a host target support using a 32-bit type for internal
+ * representation.
+ */
+LOWMEM_PAGES = (((2<<31) - __PAGE_OFFSET) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
+
/* Enough space to fit pagetables for the low memory linear map */
MAPPING_BEYOND_END = PAGE_TABLE_SIZE(LOWMEM_PAGES) << PAGE_SHIFT
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