linux-kernel - [PATCH 9/9] x86: avoid high BIOS area when allocating address space

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Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:39:02 -0700
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Adam Belay <abelay@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH 9/9] x86: avoid high BIOS area when allocating address space


This prevents allocation of the last 2MB before 4GB.

The experiment described here shows Windows 7 ignoring the last 1MB:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23542#c27

This patch ignores the top 2MB instead of just 1MB because H. Peter Anvin
says "There will be ROM at the top of the 32-bit address space; it's a fact
of the architecture, and on at least older systems it was common to have a
shadow 1 MiB below."

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
---

 arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h |    3 +++
 arch/x86/kernel/resource.c  |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
index 5be1542..e99d55d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ struct e820map {
 #define BIOS_BEGIN		0x000a0000
 #define BIOS_END		0x00100000
 
+#define BIOS_ROM_BASE		0xffe00000
+#define BIOS_ROM_END		0xffffffff
+
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 /* see comment in arch/x86/kernel/e820.c */
 extern struct e820map e820;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/resource.c b/arch/x86/kernel/resource.c
index 89638af..2a26819 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/resource.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/resource.c
@@ -37,10 +37,11 @@ static void remove_e820_regions(struct resource *avail)
 
 void arch_remove_reservations(struct resource *avail)
 {
-	/* Trim out BIOS area (low 1MB) and E820 regions */
+	/* Trim out BIOS areas (low 1MB and high 2MB) and E820 regions */
 	if (avail->flags & IORESOURCE_MEM) {
 		if (avail->start < BIOS_END)
 			avail->start = BIOS_END;
+		resource_clip(avail, BIOS_ROM_BASE, BIOS_ROM_END);
 
 		remove_e820_regions(avail);
 	}

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