[34-longterm 173/247] x86: Emit "mem=nopentium ignored" warning when not supported

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Thu Jun 23 2011 - 13:59:24 EST


From: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit 9a6d44b9adb777ca9549e88cd55bd8f2673c52a2 upstream.

Emit warning when "mem=nopentium" is specified on any arch other
than x86_32 (the only that arch supports it).

Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553464
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1296783486-23033-2-git-send-email-kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 7 +++++--
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index 4267f42..41ac10e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -980,12 +980,15 @@ static int __init parse_memopt(char *p)
if (!p)
return -EINVAL;

-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
if (!strcmp(p, "nopentium")) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PSE);
return 0;
- }
+#else
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "mem=nopentium ignored! (only supported on x86_32)\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
#endif
+ }

userdef = 1;
mem_size = memparse(p, &p);
--
1.7.4.4

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