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* [PATCH] powerpc: pseries: Fix kexec on machines with more than 4TB of RAM
@ 2011-07-27  4:15 Anton Blanchard
  2011-07-27  4:26 ` Michael Neuling
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Anton Blanchard @ 2011-07-27  4:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: benh, paulus, mikey, miltonm; +Cc: kexec, linuxppc-dev


On a box with 8TB of RAM the MMU hashtable is 64GB in size. That
means we have 4G PTEs. pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear was using a signed
int to store the index which will overflow at 2G.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
---

Index: linux-powerpc/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
===================================================================
--- linux-powerpc.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c	2011-07-27 13:50:18.408091576 +1000
+++ linux-powerpc/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c	2011-07-27 13:51:19.359196131 +1000
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static void pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear(voi
 		unsigned long ptel;
 	} ptes[4];
 	long lpar_rc;
-	int i, j;
+	unsigned long i, j;
 
 	/* Read in batches of 4,
 	 * invalidate only valid entries not in the VRMA

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* Re: [PATCH] powerpc: pseries: Fix kexec on machines with more than 4TB of RAM
  2011-07-27  4:15 [PATCH] powerpc: pseries: Fix kexec on machines with more than 4TB of RAM Anton Blanchard
@ 2011-07-27  4:26 ` Michael Neuling
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Michael Neuling @ 2011-07-27  4:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Anton Blanchard; +Cc: paulus, linuxppc-dev, miltonm, kexec

> On a box with 8TB of RAM the MMU hashtable is 64GB in size. That
> means we have 4G PTEs. pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear was using a signed
> int to store the index which will overflow at 2G.

Wow, I hear... "Anton Blanchard's machine has more memory in it's MMU
than you have in total".

Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
> ---
> 
> Index: linux-powerpc/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-powerpc.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c	2011-07-27 13:5
0:18.408091576 +1000
> +++ linux-powerpc/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c	2011-07-27 13:5
1:19.359196131 +1000
> @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static void pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear(voi
>  		unsigned long ptel;
>  	} ptes[4];
>  	long lpar_rc;
> -	int i, j;
> +	unsigned long i, j;
>  
>  	/* Read in batches of 4,
>  	 * invalidate only valid entries not in the VRMA
> 

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