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Message-ID: <20110519205834.GA5644@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 19 May 2011 22:58:34 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86/gart change for v2.6.40

Linus,

Please pull the latest x86-gart-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-gart-for-linus

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Joerg Roedel (1):
      x86, gart: Don't enforce GART aperture lower-bound by alignment


 arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c |   34 +++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
index 73fb469..3d2661c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
@@ -30,6 +30,22 @@
 #include <asm/amd_nb.h>
 #include <asm/x86_init.h>
 
+/*
+ * Using 512M as goal, in case kexec will load kernel_big
+ * that will do the on-position decompress, and could overlap with
+ * with the gart aperture that is used.
+ * Sequence:
+ * kernel_small
+ * ==> kexec (with kdump trigger path or gart still enabled)
+ * ==> kernel_small (gart area become e820_reserved)
+ * ==> kexec (with kdump trigger path or gart still enabled)
+ * ==> kerne_big (uncompressed size will be big than 64M or 128M)
+ * So don't use 512M below as gart iommu, leave the space for kernel
+ * code for safe.
+ */
+#define GART_MIN_ADDR	(512ULL << 20)
+#define GART_MAX_ADDR	(1ULL   << 32)
+
 int gart_iommu_aperture;
 int gart_iommu_aperture_disabled __initdata;
 int gart_iommu_aperture_allowed __initdata;
@@ -70,21 +86,9 @@ static u32 __init allocate_aperture(void)
 	 * memory. Unfortunately we cannot move it up because that would
 	 * make the IOMMU useless.
 	 */
-	/*
-	 * using 512M as goal, in case kexec will load kernel_big
-	 * that will do the on position decompress, and  could overlap with
-	 * that position with gart that is used.
-	 * sequende:
-	 * kernel_small
-	 * ==> kexec (with kdump trigger path or previous doesn't shutdown gart)
-	 * ==> kernel_small(gart area become e820_reserved)
-	 * ==> kexec (with kdump trigger path or previous doesn't shutdown gart)
-	 * ==> kerne_big (uncompressed size will be big than 64M or 128M)
-	 * so don't use 512M below as gart iommu, leave the space for kernel
-	 * code for safe
-	 */
-	addr = memblock_find_in_range(0, 1ULL<<32, aper_size, 512ULL<<20);
-	if (addr == MEMBLOCK_ERROR || addr + aper_size > 0xffffffff) {
+	addr = memblock_find_in_range(GART_MIN_ADDR, GART_MAX_ADDR,
+				      aper_size, aper_size);
+	if (addr == MEMBLOCK_ERROR || addr + aper_size > GART_MAX_ADDR) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR
 			"Cannot allocate aperture memory hole (%lx,%uK)\n",
 				addr, aper_size>>10);
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