Re: aperture_64.c: corner case wrong

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Jun 02 2008 - 18:31:49 EST


On Mon, 26 May 2008 21:17:30 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> If
>
> fix == 0, aper_enabled == 1, gart_fix_e820 == 0
>
> if (!fix && !aper_enabled)
> return;
>
> if (gart_fix_e820 && !fix && aper_enabled) {
> if (e820_any_mapped(aper_base, aper_base + aper_size,
> E820_RAM)) {
> /* reserve it, so we can reuse it in second
> kernel */
> printk(KERN_INFO "update e820 for GART\n");
> add_memory_region(aper_base, aper_size,
> E820_RESERVED);
> update_e820();
> }
> return;
> }
>
> /* different nodes have different setting, disable them all atfirst*/
>
> we'll fall back here and disable all the settings, even when they were
> all consistent.
>
> What about this? (I hope it compiles...)
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>
>
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
> index 02f4dba..aa4876a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
> @@ -344,14 +323,16 @@ out:
> if (gart_fix_e820 && !fix && aper_enabled) {
> if (!e820_all_mapped(aper_base, aper_base + aper_size,
> E820_RESERVED)) {
> /* reserve it, so we can reuse it in second kernel */
> printk(KERN_INFO "update e820 for GART\n");
> add_memory_region(aper_base, aper_size, E820_RESERVED);
> update_e820();
> }
> - return;
> }
>
> + if (!fix)
> + return;
> +
> /* different nodes have different setting, disable them all at first*/
> for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(bus_dev_ranges); i++) {
> int bus;
>

So what happened with this? Thomas has merged an "x86: aperture_64.c:
cleanups" from yourself but it appears that half of this bugfix got
applied somewhere and the below part did not?


diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c~aperture_64c-corner-case-wrong arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c~aperture_64c-corner-case-wrong
+++ a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
@@ -331,6 +331,9 @@ out:
return;
}

+ if (!fix)
+ return;
+
/* different nodes have different setting, disable them all at first*/
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(bus_dev_ranges); i++) {
int bus;
_

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