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mm/CMA: fix boot regression due to physical address of high_memory
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high_memory isn't direct mapped memory so retrieving it's physical address
isn't appropriate.  But, it would be useful to check physical address of
highmem boundary so it's justfiable to get physical address from it.  In
x86, there is a validation check if CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL and it triggers
following boot failure reported by Ingo.

  ...
  BUG: Int 6: CR2 00f06f53
  ...
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x41/0x52
    early_idt_handler+0x6b/0x6b
    cma_declare_contiguous+0x33/0x212
    dma_contiguous_reserve_area+0x31/0x4e
    dma_contiguous_reserve+0x11d/0x125
    setup_arch+0x7b5/0xb63
    start_kernel+0xb8/0x3e6
    i386_start_kernel+0x79/0x7d

To fix boot regression, this patch implements workaround to avoid
validation check in x86 when retrieving physical address of high_memory.
__pa_nodebug() used by this patch is implemented only in x86 so there is
no choice but to use dirty #ifdef.

[[email protected]: tweak comment]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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JoonsooKim authored and torvalds committed Dec 11, 2014
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14 changes: 13 additions & 1 deletion mm/cma.c
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Expand Up @@ -215,9 +215,21 @@ int __init cma_declare_contiguous(phys_addr_t base,
bool fixed, struct cma **res_cma)
{
phys_addr_t memblock_end = memblock_end_of_DRAM();
phys_addr_t highmem_start = __pa(high_memory);
phys_addr_t highmem_start;
int ret = 0;

#ifdef CONFIG_X86
/*
* high_memory isn't direct mapped memory so retrieving its physical
* address isn't appropriate. But it would be useful to check the
* physical address of the highmem boundary so it's justfiable to get
* the physical address from it. On x86 there is a validation check for
* this case, so the following workaround is needed to avoid it.
*/
highmem_start = __pa_nodebug(high_memory);
#else
highmem_start = __pa(high_memory);
#endif
pr_debug("%s(size %pa, base %pa, limit %pa alignment %pa)\n",
__func__, &size, &base, &limit, &alignment);

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