linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] x86 fix, left over from the v4.1 cycle

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Message-ID: <20150622083758.GA10507@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:37:59 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86 fix, left over from the v4.1 cycle

Linus,

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

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

   # HEAD: 04c17341b42699a5859a8afa05e64ba08a4e5235 x86/boot: Fix overflow warning with 32-bit binutils

A build fix for certain (rare) variants of binutils that did not make it into v4.1.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Borislav Petkov (1):
      x86/boot: Fix overflow warning with 32-bit binutils


 arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
index 53eeb226657c..7e429c99c728 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
@@ -62,9 +62,16 @@
 #define PAGE_TABLE_SIZE(pages) ((pages) / PTRS_PER_PGD)
 #endif
 
-/* Number of possible pages in the lowmem region */
-LOWMEM_PAGES = (((1<<32) - __PAGE_OFFSET) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
-	
+/*
+ * Number of possible pages in the lowmem region.
+ *
+ * We shift 2 by 31 instead of 1 by 32 to the left in order to avoid a
+ * gas warning about overflowing shift count when gas has been compiled
+ * with only a host target support using a 32-bit type for internal
+ * representation.
+ */
+LOWMEM_PAGES = (((2<<31) - __PAGE_OFFSET) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
+
 /* Enough space to fit pagetables for the low memory linear map */
 MAPPING_BEYOND_END = PAGE_TABLE_SIZE(LOWMEM_PAGES) << PAGE_SHIFT
 
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