From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "kernel list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: do not reserve ramdisk two times
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:01:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86802c440803132301x561b941epcbbec0fddefc2ea0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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[PATCH] x86_64: do not reserve ramdisk two times
ramdisk is reserved via reserve_early in x86_64_start_kernel,
later early_res_to_bootmem() will convert to reservation in bootmem.
so don't need to reserve that again.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
index 48be76c..e70843d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ void __init x86_64_start_kernel(char * real_mode_data)
reserve_early(__pa_symbol(&_text), __pa_symbol(&_end), "TEXT DATA BSS");
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
/* Reserve INITRD */
if (boot_params.hdr.type_of_loader && boot_params.hdr.ramdisk_image) {
unsigned long ramdisk_image = boot_params.hdr.ramdisk_image;
@@ -153,6 +154,7 @@ void __init x86_64_start_kernel(char * real_mode_data)
unsigned long ramdisk_end = ramdisk_image + ramdisk_size;
reserve_early(ramdisk_image, ramdisk_end, "RAMDISK");
}
+#endif
reserve_ebda_region();
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
index 089ce10..5dbb3c1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -425,11 +425,14 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
unsigned long end_of_mem = end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
if (ramdisk_end <= end_of_mem) {
- reserve_bootmem_generic(ramdisk_image, ramdisk_size);
+ /*
+ * don't need to reserve again, already reserved early
+ * in x86_64_start_kernel, and early_res_to_bootmem
+ * convert that to reserved in bootmeem
+ */
initrd_start = ramdisk_image + PAGE_OFFSET;
initrd_end = initrd_start+ramdisk_size;
} else {
- /* Assumes everything on node 0 */
free_bootmem(ramdisk_image, ramdisk_size);
printk(KERN_ERR "initrd extends beyond end of memory "
"(0x%08lx > 0x%08lx)\ndisabling initrd\n",
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