[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] keep initrd in below 4g area.

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] keep initrd in below 4g area.

[Glauber Costa]

initrd must be kept on the memory area below 4g. By not doing this,
we're seeing guests break while using -initrd and values of -mem
superior to 4096.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
---
 hw/pc.c |    9 +++++----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/pc.c b/hw/pc.c
index 094f01a..92c7ac5 100644
--- a/hw/pc.c
+++ b/hw/pc.c
@@ -597,7 +597,8 @@ static long get_file_size(FILE *f)
 static void load_linux(target_phys_addr_t option_rom,
                        const char *kernel_filename,
 		       const char *initrd_filename,
-		       const char *kernel_cmdline)
+		       const char *kernel_cmdline,
+               target_phys_addr_t max_ram_size)
 {
     uint16_t protocol;
     uint32_t gpr[8];
@@ -663,8 +664,8 @@ static void load_linux(target_phys_addr_t option_rom,
     else
 	initrd_max = 0x37ffffff;
 
-    if (initrd_max >= ram_size-ACPI_DATA_SIZE)
-	initrd_max = ram_size-ACPI_DATA_SIZE-1;
+    if (initrd_max >= max_ram_size-ACPI_DATA_SIZE)
+    	initrd_max = max_ram_size-ACPI_DATA_SIZE-1;
 
     /* kernel command line */
     pstrcpy_targphys(cmdline_addr, 4096, kernel_cmdline);
@@ -951,7 +952,7 @@ static void pc_init1(ram_addr_t ram_size,
 
     if (linux_boot) {
         load_linux(0xc0000 + oprom_area_size,
-                   kernel_filename, initrd_filename, kernel_cmdline);
+                   kernel_filename, initrd_filename, kernel_cmdline, below_4g_mem_size);
         oprom_area_size += 2048;
     }
 
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