linux-kernel - [PATCH 14/33] x86_64: Properly report in /proc/iomem the kernel address

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Date:	Tue,  1 Aug 2006 05:03:29 -0600
From:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
To:	<fastboot@...l.org>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Horms <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Jan Kratochvil <lace@...kratochvil.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>, Linda Wang <lwang@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: [PATCH 14/33] x86_64: Properly report in /proc/iomem the kernel address

The code assumed that the kernel was always loaded
at 1M in memory.  This fixes that assumption.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
index 8a099ff..11d31ea 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ static void discover_ebda(void)
 
 void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 {
-	unsigned long kernel_end;
+	unsigned long kernel_start, kernel_end;
 
  	ROOT_DEV = old_decode_dev(ORIG_ROOT_DEV);
  	screen_info = SCREEN_INFO;
@@ -596,8 +596,9 @@ #endif
 				(table_end - table_start) << PAGE_SHIFT);
 
 	/* reserve kernel */
+	kernel_start = __pa_symbol(&_text);
 	kernel_end = round_up(__pa_symbol(&_end),PAGE_SIZE);
-	reserve_bootmem_generic(HIGH_MEMORY, kernel_end - HIGH_MEMORY);
+	reserve_bootmem_generic(kernel_start, kernel_end - kernel_start);
 
 	/*
 	 * reserve physical page 0 - it's a special BIOS page on many boxes,
-- 
1.4.2.rc2.g5209e

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