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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-26 09:47:28 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-26 09:47:28 -0800 |
| commit | 810ee58de26c9c1255d716b1db7344c4a1093fec (patch) | |
| tree | 176531e4e4989ec7a8996a356b1a79ae7b647568 /arch/x86/mm/pat.c | |
| parent | 2927fceafc91afe744e0d1d33f8bbf98c42668fc (diff) | |
| parent | e88a0faae5baaaa3bdc6f23a55ad6bc7a7b4aa77 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (29 commits)
xen: unitialised return value in xenbus_write_transaction
x86: fix section mismatch warning
x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs, fix
x86: work around PAGE_KERNEL_WC not getting WC in iomap_atomic_prot_pfn.
x86: use standard PIT frequency
xen: handle highmem pages correctly when shrinking a domain
x86, mm: fix pte_free()
xen: actually release memory when shrinking domain
x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs
x86: add MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE bits to <asm/msr-index.h>
x86: fix PTE corruption issue while mapping RAM using /dev/mem
x86: mtrr fix debug boot parameter
x86: fix page attribute corruption with cpa()
Revert "x86: signal: change type of paramter for sys_rt_sigreturn()"
x86: use early clobbers in usercopy*.c
x86: remove kernel_physical_mapping_init() from init section
fix: crash: IP: __bitmap_intersects+0x48/0x73
cpufreq: use work_on_cpu in acpi-cpufreq.c for drv_read and drv_write
work_on_cpu: Use our own workqueue.
work_on_cpu: don't try to get_online_cpus() in work_on_cpu.
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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 43 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c index 8b08fb955274..7b61036427df 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c @@ -333,11 +333,23 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned long req_type, req_type & _PAGE_CACHE_MASK); } - is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end); - if (is_range_ram == 1) - return reserve_ram_pages_type(start, end, req_type, new_type); - else if (is_range_ram < 0) - return -EINVAL; + if (new_type) + *new_type = actual_type; + + /* + * For legacy reasons, some parts of the physical address range in the + * legacy 1MB region is treated as non-RAM (even when listed as RAM in + * the e820 tables). So we will track the memory attributes of this + * legacy 1MB region using the linear memtype_list always. + */ + if (end >= ISA_END_ADDRESS) { + is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end); + if (is_range_ram == 1) + return reserve_ram_pages_type(start, end, req_type, + new_type); + else if (is_range_ram < 0) + return -EINVAL; + } new = kmalloc(sizeof(struct memtype), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new) @@ -347,9 +359,6 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned long req_type, new->end = end; new->type = actual_type; - if (new_type) - *new_type = actual_type; - spin_lock(&memtype_lock); if (cached_entry && start >= cached_start) @@ -437,11 +446,19 @@ int free_memtype(u64 start, u64 end) if (is_ISA_range(start, end - 1)) return 0; - is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end); - if (is_range_ram == 1) - return free_ram_pages_type(start, end); - else if (is_range_ram < 0) - return -EINVAL; + /* + * For legacy reasons, some parts of the physical address range in the + * legacy 1MB region is treated as non-RAM (even when listed as RAM in + * the e820 tables). So we will track the memory attributes of this + * legacy 1MB region using the linear memtype_list always. + */ + if (end >= ISA_END_ADDRESS) { + is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end); + if (is_range_ram == 1) + return free_ram_pages_type(start, end); + else if (is_range_ram < 0) + return -EINVAL; + } spin_lock(&memtype_lock); list_for_each_entry(entry, &memtype_list, nd) { |