On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 11:36 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Because there was a change which could have affected this. But it was
> merged in late October and was present in 2.6.15.
It certainly is possible that my patch caused the bug. However, my
patch only affects limit_regions(), which is only called when the user
specifies a mem= argument on the command-line. When they do this, in
addition to the BIOS-e820 printout, they should also see a "user-defined
physical RAM map:", which I don't see in the diff. Also, I'm pretty
sure that this e820 printout runs before parse_cmdline_early(), where
limit_regions() is called.
Martin, in any case, I have debugged things in that code recently, and
I'd be happy to help you fix your problem. I've attached a patch that
does a ton of e820 debug printks. If you could get me a full copy of
your dmesg with that applied, I should be able to locate the problem a
bit more quickly.
-- Dave
---
include/asm-i386/mach-visws/setup_arch_post.h | 0
work-dave/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/setup.c~e820-debug arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
--- work/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c~e820-debug 2006-03-07 12:47:23.000000000 -0800
+++ work-dave/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c 2006-03-07 13:07:49.000000000 -0800
@@ -363,11 +363,13 @@ static void __init probe_roms(void)
}
}
+static void __init print_memory_map(char *who);
static void __init limit_regions(unsigned long long size)
{
unsigned long long current_addr = 0;
int i;
+ print_memory_map("limit_regions start");
if (efi_enabled) {
efi_memory_desc_t *md;
void *p;
@@ -404,8 +406,10 @@ static void __init limit_regions(unsigne
e820.nr_map = i + 1;
e820.map[i].size -= current_addr - size;
}
+ print_memory_map("limit_regions endfor");
return;
}
+ print_memory_map("limit_regions endfunc");
}
static void __init add_memory_region(unsigned long long start,
@@ -413,6 +417,7 @@ static void __init add_memory_region(uns
{
int x;
+ printk("add_memory_region(%016Lx, %016Lx, %d)\n", start, size, type);
if (!efi_enabled) {
x = e820.nr_map;
@@ -518,17 +523,21 @@ static int __init sanitize_e820_map(stru
____________________33__
______________________4_
*/
-
+ printk("sanitize start\n");
/* if there's only one memory region, don't bother */
- if (*pnr_map < 2)
+ if (*pnr_map < 2) {
+ printk("sanitize bail 0\n");
return -1;
+ }
old_nr = *pnr_map;
/* bail out if we find any unreasonable addresses in bios map */
for (i=0; i<old_nr; i++)
- if (biosmap[i].addr + biosmap[i].size < biosmap[i].addr)
+ if (biosmap[i].addr + biosmap[i].size < biosmap[i].addr) {
+ printk("sanitize bail 1\n");
return -1;
+ }
/* create pointers for initial change-point information (for sorting) */
for (i=0; i < 2*old_nr; i++)
@@ -622,6 +631,7 @@ static int __init sanitize_e820_map(stru
memcpy(biosmap, new_bios, new_nr*sizeof(struct e820entry));
*pnr_map = new_nr;
+ printk("sanitize end\n");
return 0;
}
@@ -652,6 +662,7 @@ static int __init copy_e820_map(struct e
unsigned long long size = biosmap->size;
unsigned long long end = start + size;
unsigned long type = biosmap->type;
+ printk("copy_e820_map() start: %016Lx size: %016Lx end: %016Lx type: %ld\n", start, size, end, type);
/* Overflow in 64 bits? Ignore the memory map. */
if (start > end)
@@ -662,11 +673,17 @@ static int __init copy_e820_map(struct e
* Not right. Fix it up.
*/
if (type == E820_RAM) {
+ printk("copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM\n");
if (start < 0x100000ULL && end > 0xA0000ULL) {
- if (start < 0xA0000ULL)
+ printk("copy_e820_map() lies in range...\n");
+ if (start < 0xA0000ULL) {
+ printk("copy_e820_map() start < 0xA0000ULL\n");
add_memory_region(start, 0xA0000ULL-start, type);
- if (end <= 0x100000ULL)
+ }
+ if (end <= 0x100000ULL) {
+ printk("copy_e820_map() end <= 0x100000ULL\n");
continue;
+ }
start = 0x100000ULL;
size = end - start;
}
diff -puN include/asm-i386/mach-default/setup_arch_post.h~e820-debug include/asm-i386/mach-default/setup_arch_post.h
diff -puN include/asm-i386/mach-visws/setup_arch_post.h~e820-debug include/asm-i386/mach-visws/setup_arch_post.h
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