On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:03:55AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> My server here runs the 3.4.xx series of "stable" kernels.
> Until today, it was running 3.4.9.
> Today I tried to upgrade it to 3.4.16.
> It hangs in setup.c.
>
> I've isolated the fault down to this specific change
> that was made between 3.4.9 and 3.4.16.
> Reverting this change allows the system to boot/run normally again.
>
>
> --- linux-3.4.9/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c 2012-08-15 11:17:17.000000000
> -0400
> +++ linux-3.4.16/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c 2012-10-28 13:36:33.000000000
> -0400
> @@ -927,8 +927,21 @@
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> if (max_pfn > max_low_pfn) {
> - max_pfn_mapped = init_memory_mapping(1UL<<32,
> - max_pfn<<PAGE_SHIFT);
> + int i;
> + for (i = 0; i < e820.nr_map; i++) {
> + struct e820entry *ei = &e820.map[i];
> +
> + if (ei->addr + ei->size <= 1UL << 32)
> + continue;
> +
> + if (ei->type == E820_RESERVED)
> + continue;
> +
> + max_pfn_mapped = init_memory_mapping(
> + ei->addr < 1UL << 32 ? 1UL << 32 : ei->addr,
> + ei->addr + ei->size);
> + }
> +
> /* can we preseve max_low_pfn ?*/
> max_low_pfn = max_pfn;
> }
For the record, it is this commit introduced in 3.4.16 :
commit efd5fa0c1a1d1b46846ea6e8d1a783d0d8a6a721
Author: Jacob Shin <jacob.s...@amd.com>
Date: Thu Oct 20 16:15:26 2011 -0500
x86: Exclude E820_RESERVED regions and memory holes above 4 GB from direct
mapping.
commit 1bbbbe779aabe1f0768c2bf8f8c0a5583679b54a upstream.
On systems with very large memory (1 TB in our case), BIOS may report a
reserved region or a hole in the E820 map, even above the 4 GB range.
Exclude
these from the direct mapping.
[ hpa: this should be done not just for > 4 GB but for everything above the
legacy
region (1 MB), at the very least. That, however, turns out to require
significant
restructuring. That work is well underway, but is not suitable for
rc/stable. ]
Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.s...@amd.com>
Link:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1319145326-13902-1-git-send-email-jacob.s...@amd.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <h...@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Willy
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