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From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Linux-ia64] PATCH: Fix for 4KB kernel corruption
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 02:05:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805523@msgid-missing> (raw)

Hi,

4KB page size kernel is broken on Lion with 8GB memory. ia64_boot_param
structure was getting corrupted. Appended patch fixes this problem.

PAGE_ALIGN is required because: rsvd_region[i].end need not be page aligned
and in the next iteration of the for loop this can potentially become
bootmap_start. This can lead to corruption of rsvd_region[i] as
init_bootmem() takes the pfn of bootmap_start and initialises the bootmem.

Thanks,
Suresh

diff -u linux-2.4.14/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c~
linux-2.4.14/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
--- linux-2.4.14/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c~      Thu Nov 15 16:27:23 2001
+++ linux-2.4.14/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c       Thu Nov 15 16:28:01 2001
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
                /* nothing more available in this segment */
                if (range_end = end) return 0;
 
-               free_start = rsvd_region[i].end;
+               free_start = PAGE_ALIGN(rsvd_region[i].end);
        }
        return 0;
 }


             reply	other threads:[~2001-11-16  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-16  2:05 Siddha, Suresh B [this message]
2001-11-16  2:05 ` [Linux-ia64] PATCH: Fix for 4KB kernel corruption Siddha, Suresh B
2001-11-16 10:24 ` Philippe Gramoullé
2001-11-16 18:44 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2001-11-19 21:40 ` David Mosberger

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