Re: MPTable can not be high-memory on Linux

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Sat Feb 28 2009 - 22:11:57 EST


Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:14:56PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> please check
>>
>> [PATCH] x86: check physptr with max_low_pfn on 32bit
>
> Thanks for looking at this issue.
>
> Unfortunately, the kernel still does not work with the applied patch.
> Neither 32bit nor 64bit kernels boot. (Note, I applied the patch to
> Linus' git, and I had to replace mpf->physptr with mpf->mpf_physptr.)
>
> The error messages from before and after patching appear to be the
> same.
>
>

please add this patch too

[PATCH] x86: ioremap mptable

Impact: fix boot with mptable above max_low_mapped

try to use early_ioremap it.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c
@@ -611,12 +611,20 @@ static void __init __get_smp_config(unsi
construct_default_ISA_mptable(mpf->feature1);

} else if (mpf->physptr) {
+ struct mpc_table *mpc;
+ unsigned int length;

+ mpc = early_ioremap(mpf->physptr, PAGE_SIZE);
+ length = mpc->length;
+ apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, " mpc: %x-%x\n", mpf->physptr,
+ mpf->physptr + length);
+ early_iounmap(mpc, PAGE_SIZE);
+ mpc = early_ioremap(mpf->physptr, length);
/*
* Read the physical hardware table. Anything here will
* override the defaults.
*/
- if (!smp_read_mpc(phys_to_virt(mpf->physptr), early)) {
+ if (!smp_read_mpc(mpc, early)) {
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
smp_found_config = 0;
#endif
@@ -624,9 +632,12 @@ static void __init __get_smp_config(unsi
"BIOS bug, MP table errors detected!...\n");
printk(KERN_ERR "... disabling SMP support. "
"(tell your hw vendor)\n");
+ early_iounmap(mpc, length);
return;
}

+ early_iounmap(mpc, length);
+
if (early)
return;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
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