Martin MOKREJ__ <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ...
> >
> >> --- tmp/boot-2.6.15.txt 2006-03-07 11:45:48.015509048 +0100
> >> +++ tmp/boot-2.6.16-rc5.txt 2006-03-07 11:45:48.029506920 +0100
> >> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> >> -Linux version 2.6.15 (root@phylo) (gcc version 3.4.5 (Gentoo 3.4.5-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)) #1 SMP Mon Mar 6 20:20:06 MET 2006
> >> +Linux version 2.6.16-rc5 (root@phylo) (gcc version 3.4.5 (Gentoo 3.4.5-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)) #1 SMP Mon Mar 6 19:58:24 MET 2006
> >> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> >> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009a800 (usable)
> >> BIOS-e820: 000000000009a800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> >> @@ -12,16 +12,16 @@
> >> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
> >> BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
> >> BIOS-e820: 00000000fffffc00 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> >> - BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000430000000 (usable)
> >> -16256MB HIGHMEM available.
> >> + BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000230000000 (usable)
> >> +8064MB HIGHMEM available.
> >
> >
> > These numbers are what the BIOS is telling the kernel about your machine.
> > Was the BIOS changed?
>
> No, it hasn't since we got the motherboard. Yes, it is 1.20 instead
> of 1.50. The MSI web is such a crap I couldn't first of all get the
> file at all and once found on a local reseller's page the zip file
> contains no Changelog, so I have no clue what happened between 1.20
> and 1.50 BIOS revision.
>
> >
> > If not, you might need to wiggle those DIMMs or something.
>
> It is really something else, 16GB can be seen under 2.6.15,
> 2.6.15-rc1 (if I remember right my previous kernel version).
> I can reproduce just by booting with "wrong" kernel version.
> Any other recommendation? Except flashing and praying?
> I haven't touched the BIOS setting either, I worked completely remotely.
>
Are you sure that it was 2.6.15 which found the full 16G?
Because there was a change which could have affected this. But it was
merged in late October and was present in 2.6.15.
You could try a `patch -p1 -R < this:'
diff-tree f014a556e714dfb02502e3be6146a39ca625f33c (from 750deaa4021da1cf9fdb1e20861a10c76fd7f2bc)
Author: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Oct 30 14:59:37 2005 -0800
[PATCH] fixup bogus e820 entry with mem=
This was reported because someone was getting oopses reading /proc/iomem.
It was tracked down to a zero-sized 'struct resource' entry which was
located right at 4GB.
You need two conditions to hit this bug: a BIOS E820_RAM area starting at
exactly the boundary where you specify mem= (to get a zero-sized entry),
and for the legacy_init_iomem_resources() loop to skip that resource (which
only happens at exactly 4G).
I think the killing zero-sized e820 entry is the easiest way to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
index 9b8c8a1..b48ac63 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
@@ -389,14 +389,24 @@ static void __init limit_regions(unsigne
}
}
for (i = 0; i < e820.nr_map; i++) {
- if (e820.map[i].type == E820_RAM) {
- current_addr = e820.map[i].addr + e820.map[i].size;
- if (current_addr >= size) {
- e820.map[i].size -= current_addr-size;
- e820.nr_map = i + 1;
- return;
- }
+ current_addr = e820.map[i].addr + e820.map[i].size;
+ if (current_addr < size)
+ continue;
+
+ if (e820.map[i].type != E820_RAM)
+ continue;
+
+ if (e820.map[i].addr >= size) {
+ /*
+ * This region starts past the end of the
+ * requested size, skip it completely.
+ */
+ e820.nr_map = i;
+ } else {
+ e820.nr_map = i + 1;
+ e820.map[i].size -= current_addr - size;
}
+ return;
}
}
-
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