[patch 29/29] initrd: Fix virtual/physical mix-up in overwrite test

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 29/29] initrd: Fix virtual/physical mix-up in overwrite test
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:16:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080717191758.556975996@mail.of.borg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080717191607.955742542@mail.of.borg

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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

On recent kernels, I get the following error when using an initrd:

| initrd overwritten (0x00b78000 < 0x07668000) - disabling it.

My Amiga 4000 has 12 MiB of RAM at physical address 0x07400000 (virtual
0x00000000).
The initrd is located at the end of RAM: 0x00b78000 - 0x00c00000 (virtual).
The overwrite test compares the (virtual) initrd location to the (physical)
first available memory location, which fails.

This patch converts initrd_start to a page frame number, so it can safely be
compared with min_low_pfn.

Before the introduction of discontiguous memory support on m68k
(12d810c1b8c2b913d48e629e2b5c01d105029839), min_low_pfn was just left
untouched by the m68k-specific code (zero, I guess), and everything worked
fine.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
---
On several platforms, initrd_below_start_ok is set to 1:

| arch/mips/kernel/setup.c:       initrd_below_start_ok = 1;
| arch/parisc/mm/init.c:                  initrd_below_start_ok = 1;
| arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c:                     initrd_below_start_ok = 1;
| arch/ppc/platforms/hdpu.c:                      initrd_below_start_ok = 1;
| arch/xtensa/kernel/setup.c:             initrd_below_start_ok = 1;

Some of these may be workarounds for this bug. Please check.

 init/main.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -630,9 +630,10 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
 	if (initrd_start && !initrd_below_start_ok &&
-			initrd_start < min_low_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) {
+	    page_to_pfn(virt_to_page(initrd_start)) < min_low_pfn) {
 		printk(KERN_CRIT "initrd overwritten (0x%08lx < 0x%08lx) - "
-		    "disabling it.\n",initrd_start,min_low_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
+		    "disabling it.\n",
+		    page_to_pfn(virt_to_page(initrd_start)), min_low_pfn);
 		initrd_start = 0;
 	}
 #endif

-- 
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds

