linux-kernel - [PATCH] MIPS: init: Prevent adding memory before PHYS

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Date:   Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:20:51 +0200
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@...e.de>
To:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: init: Prevent adding memory before PHYS_OFFSET

On some SGI machines (IP28 and IP30) a small region of memory is mirrored
to pyhsical address 0 for exception vectors while rest of the memory
is reachable at a higher physical address. ARC PROM marks this
region as reserved, but with commit a94e4f24ec83 ("MIPS: init: Drop
boot_mem_map") this chunk is used, when searching for start of ram,
which breaks at least IP28 and IP30 machines. To fix this
add_region_memory() checks for start address < PHYS_OFFSET and ignores
these chunks.

Fixes: a94e4f24ec83 ("MIPS: init: Drop boot_mem_map")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@...e.de>
---
 arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
index f5c6b4c6de24..5eec13b8d222 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ void __init add_memory_region(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t size, long type)
 		return;
 	}

+	if (start < PHYS_OFFSET)
+		return;
+
 	memblock_add(start, size);
 	/* Reserve any memory except the ordinary RAM ranges. */
 	switch (type) {
-- 
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