[PATCH 2/2] arm64: set MAX_MEMBLOCK_ADDR according to linear region size

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Tue Aug 18 02:34:42 PDT 2015


The linear region size of a 39-bit VA kernel is only 256 GB, which
may be insufficient to cover all of system RAM, even on platforms
that have much less than 256 GB of memory but which is laid out
very sparsely.

So make sure we clip the memory we will not be able to map before
installing it into the memblock memory table, by setting
MAX_MEMBLOCK_ADDR accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
index f800d45ea226..44a59c20e773 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
@@ -114,6 +114,14 @@ extern phys_addr_t		memstart_addr;
 #define PHYS_OFFSET		({ memstart_addr; })
 
 /*
+ * The maximum physical address that the linear direct mapping
+ * of system RAM can cover. (PAGE_OFFSET can be interpreted as
+ * a 2's complement signed quantity and negated to derive the
+ * maximum size of the linear mapping.)
+ */
+#define MAX_MEMBLOCK_ADDR	({ memstart_addr - PAGE_OFFSET - 1; })
+
+/*
  * PFNs are used to describe any physical page; this means
  * PFN 0 == physical address 0.
  *
-- 
1.9.1




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