[053/139] x86: Handle overlapping mptables

[Greg KH]

2.6.33-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 909fc87b32b3b9e3f0b87dcc5d98319c41900c58 upstream.

We found a system where the MP table MPC and MPF structures overlap.

That doesn't really matter because the mptable is not used anyways with ACPI,
but it leads to a panic in the early allocator due to the overlapping
reservations in 2.6.33.

Earlier kernels handled this without problems.

Simply change these reservations to reserve_early_overlap_ok to avoid
the panic.

Reported-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <20100329074111.GA22821@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ static void __init smp_reserve_memory(st
 {
 	unsigned long size = get_mpc_size(mpf->physptr);
 
-	reserve_early(mpf->physptr, mpf->physptr+size, "MP-table mpc");
+	reserve_early_overlap_ok(mpf->physptr, mpf->physptr+size, "MP-table mpc");
 }
 
 static int __init smp_scan_config(unsigned long base, unsigned long length)
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ static int __init smp_scan_config(unsign
 			       mpf, (u64)virt_to_phys(mpf));
 
 			mem = virt_to_phys(mpf);
-			reserve_early(mem, mem + sizeof(*mpf), "MP-table mpf");
+			reserve_early_overlap_ok(mem, mem + sizeof(*mpf), "MP-table mpf");
 			if (mpf->physptr)
 				smp_reserve_memory(mpf);
 


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