[GIT PULL] x86/gart change for v2.6.40

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu May 19 2011 - 16:58:46 EST


Linus,

Please pull the latest x86-gart-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-gart-for-linus

Thanks,

Ingo

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Joerg Roedel (1):
x86, gart: Don't enforce GART aperture lower-bound by alignment


arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
index 73fb469..3d2661c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
@@ -30,6 +30,22 @@
#include <asm/amd_nb.h>
#include <asm/x86_init.h>

+/*
+ * Using 512M as goal, in case kexec will load kernel_big
+ * that will do the on-position decompress, and could overlap with
+ * with the gart aperture that is used.
+ * Sequence:
+ * kernel_small
+ * ==> kexec (with kdump trigger path or gart still enabled)
+ * ==> kernel_small (gart area become e820_reserved)
+ * ==> kexec (with kdump trigger path or gart still enabled)
+ * ==> kerne_big (uncompressed size will be big than 64M or 128M)
+ * So don't use 512M below as gart iommu, leave the space for kernel
+ * code for safe.
+ */
+#define GART_MIN_ADDR (512ULL << 20)
+#define GART_MAX_ADDR (1ULL << 32)
+
int gart_iommu_aperture;
int gart_iommu_aperture_disabled __initdata;
int gart_iommu_aperture_allowed __initdata;
@@ -70,21 +86,9 @@ static u32 __init allocate_aperture(void)
* memory. Unfortunately we cannot move it up because that would
* make the IOMMU useless.
*/
- /*
- * using 512M as goal, in case kexec will load kernel_big
- * that will do the on position decompress, and could overlap with
- * that position with gart that is used.
- * sequende:
- * kernel_small
- * ==> kexec (with kdump trigger path or previous doesn't shutdown gart)
- * ==> kernel_small(gart area become e820_reserved)
- * ==> kexec (with kdump trigger path or previous doesn't shutdown gart)
- * ==> kerne_big (uncompressed size will be big than 64M or 128M)
- * so don't use 512M below as gart iommu, leave the space for kernel
- * code for safe
- */
- addr = memblock_find_in_range(0, 1ULL<<32, aper_size, 512ULL<<20);
- if (addr == MEMBLOCK_ERROR || addr + aper_size > 0xffffffff) {
+ addr = memblock_find_in_range(GART_MIN_ADDR, GART_MAX_ADDR,
+ aper_size, aper_size);
+ if (addr == MEMBLOCK_ERROR || addr + aper_size > GART_MAX_ADDR) {
printk(KERN_ERR
"Cannot allocate aperture memory hole (%lx,%uK)\n",
addr, aper_size>>10);
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