linux-kernel - [PATCH] powerpc/mm: fix a hardcode on memory boundary checking

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Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:09:06 +0800
From:   Rui Teng <rui.teng@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        jia he <hejianet@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Rui Teng <rui.teng@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: fix a hardcode on memory boundary checking

The offset of hugepage block will not be 16G, if the expected
page is more than one. Calculate the totol size instead of the
hardcode value.

Signed-off-by: Rui Teng <rui.teng@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
index 8033493..b829f8e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ static int __init htab_dt_scan_hugepage_blocks(unsigned long node,
 	printk(KERN_INFO "Huge page(16GB) memory: "
 			"addr = 0x%lX size = 0x%lX pages = %d\n",
 			phys_addr, block_size, expected_pages);
-	if (phys_addr + (16 * GB) <= memblock_end_of_DRAM()) {
+	if (phys_addr + block_size * expected_pages <= memblock_end_of_DRAM()) {
 		memblock_reserve(phys_addr, block_size * expected_pages);
 		add_gpage(phys_addr, block_size, expected_pages);
 	}
-- 
2.9.0