From: Linus Torvalds [PATCH] x86: reserve range near the ram Impact: protect stolen RAM The point is to take all RAM resources we have, and _after_ we've added all the resources we've seen in the E820 tree, we then _also_ try to add fake reserved entries for any "round up to X" at the end of the RAM resources. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu --- arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c @@ -1370,6 +1370,23 @@ void __init e820_reserve_resources(void) } } +/* How much should we pad RAM ending depending on where it is? */ +static unsigned long ram_alignment(resource_size_t pos) +{ + unsigned long mb = pos >> 20; + + /* To 64kB in the first megabyte */ + if (!mb) + return 64*1024; + + /* To 1MB in the first 16MB */ + if (mb < 16) + return 1024*1024; + + /* To 32MB for anything above that */ + return 32*1024*1024; +} + void __init e820_reserve_resources_late(void) { int i; @@ -1381,6 +1398,24 @@ void __init e820_reserve_resources_late( insert_resource_expand_to_fit(&iomem_resource, res); res++; } + + /* + * Try to bump up RAM regions to reasonable boundaries to + * avoid stolen RAM + */ + for (i = 0; i < e820.nr_map; i++) { + struct e820entry *entry = &e820_saved.map[i]; + resource_size_t start, end; + + if (entry->type != E820_RAM) + continue; + start = entry->addr + entry->size; + end = round_up(start, ram_alignment(start)); + if (start == end) + continue; + reserve_region_with_split(&iomem_resource, start, end -1, + "RAM buffer"); + } } char *__init default_machine_specific_memory_setup(void)