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| author | Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> | 2008-09-09 09:56:08 -0400 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2008-09-09 11:54:53 -0700 |
| commit | d6be118a97ce51ca84035270f91c2bccecbfac5f (patch) | |
| tree | dc9eeba631d2e424d64adfe82dfe0aed53c24b1c /arch | |
| parent | 14469a8dd23677921db5e7354a602c98d9c6300f (diff) | |
| download | linux-d6be118a97ce51ca84035270f91c2bccecbfac5f.tar.bz2 | |
x86: fix memmap=exactmap boot argument
When using kdump modifying the e820 map is yielding strange results.
For example starting with
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000100 - 0000000000093400 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000093400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fee0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fee0000 - 000000003fef3000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fef3000 - 000000003ff80000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff80000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
and booting with args
memmap=exactmap memmap=640K@0K memmap=5228K@16384K memmap=125188K@22252K memmap=76K#1047424K memmap=564K#1047500K
resulted in:
user-defined physical RAM map:
user: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000093400 (usable)
user: 0000000000093400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
user: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fee0000 (usable)
user: 000000003fee0000 - 000000003fef3000 (ACPI data)
user: 000000003fef3000 - 000000003ff80000 (ACPI NVS)
user: 000000003ff80000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
user: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
user: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
user: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
user: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
But should have resulted in:
user-defined physical RAM map:
user: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
user: 0000000001000000 - 000000000151b000 (usable)
user: 00000000015bb000 - 0000000008ffc000 (usable)
user: 000000003fee0000 - 000000003ff80000 (ACPI data)
This is happening because of an improper usage of strcmp() in the
e820 parsing code. The strcmp() always returns !0 and never resets the
value for e820.nr_map and returns an incorrect user-defined map.
This patch fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c index 9af89078f7bb..66e48aa2dd1b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c @@ -1203,7 +1203,7 @@ static int __init parse_memmap_opt(char *p) if (!p) return -EINVAL; - if (!strcmp(p, "exactmap")) { + if (!strncmp(p, "exactmap", 8)) { #ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP /* * If we are doing a crash dump, we still need to know |