Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2.6.19-rc4] kdump panics early in boot when reserving MP Tables located in high memory

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Thursday 02 November 2006 23:24, Amul Shah wrote:

> 
> The ACPI tables and MP Tables reside higher in memory.  When reserving
> memory with reserve_bootmem_generic, the function has a BUG panic if the
> memory location to reserve is above the top of memory.  The MP table is
> above the top of memory in a user defined memory map.

I think it would be cleaner to add a check in reserve_bootmem_generic
that just returns when pfn >= end_pfn && pfn < end_pfn_mapped

How about this patch? Does it work?

-Andi

Handle reserve_bootmem_generic beyond end_pfn

This can happen on kexec kernels with some configurations, in particularly
on Unisys ES7000 systems.

Analysis by Amul Shah 

Cc: Amul Shah <amul.shah@unisys.com>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

Index: linux/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
+++ linux/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
@@ -655,9 +655,22 @@ void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start
 
 void __init reserve_bootmem_generic(unsigned long phys, unsigned len) 
 { 
-	/* Should check here against the e820 map to avoid double free */ 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	int nid = phys_to_nid(phys);
+#endif
+	unsigned long pfn = phys >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+	if (pfn >= end_pfn) {
+		/* This can happen with kdump kernels when accessing firmware
+		   tables. */
+		if (pfn < end_pfn_map) 
+			return;
+		printk(KERN_ERR "reserve_bootmem: illegal reserve %lx %u\n",
+				phys, len);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	/* Should check here against the e820 map to avoid double free */ 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
   	reserve_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(nid), phys, len);
 #else       		
 	reserve_bootmem(phys, len);