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[PATCH] Don't force reserve the 640k-1MB range
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From i386 x86-64 inherited code to force reserve the 640k-1MB area.
That was needed on some old systems.

But we generally trust the e820 map to be correct on 64bit systems
and mark all areas that are not memory correctly.

This patch will allow to use the real memory in there.

Or rather the only way to find out if it's still needed is to
try. So far I'm optimistic.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Andi Kleen authored and Andi Kleen committed Sep 26, 2006
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33 changes: 1 addition & 32 deletions arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c
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Expand Up @@ -71,12 +71,7 @@ static inline int bad_addr(unsigned long *addrp, unsigned long size)
return 1;
}
#endif
/* kernel code + 640k memory hole (later should not be needed, but
be paranoid for now) */
if (last >= 640*1024 && addr < 1024*1024) {
*addrp = 1024*1024;
return 1;
}
/* kernel code */
if (last >= __pa_symbol(&_text) && last < __pa_symbol(&_end)) {
*addrp = __pa_symbol(&_end);
return 1;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -519,13 +514,6 @@ static int __init sanitize_e820_map(struct e820entry * biosmap, char * pnr_map)
* If we're lucky and live on a modern system, the setup code
* will have given us a memory map that we can use to properly
* set up memory. If we aren't, we'll fake a memory map.
*
* We check to see that the memory map contains at least 2 elements
* before we'll use it, because the detection code in setup.S may
* not be perfect and most every PC known to man has two memory
* regions: one from 0 to 640k, and one from 1mb up. (The IBM
* thinkpad 560x, for example, does not cooperate with the memory
* detection code.)
*/
static int __init copy_e820_map(struct e820entry * biosmap, int nr_map)
{
Expand All @@ -543,25 +531,6 @@ static int __init copy_e820_map(struct e820entry * biosmap, int nr_map)
if (start > end)
return -1;

/*
* Some BIOSes claim RAM in the 640k - 1M region.
* Not right. Fix it up.
*
* This should be removed on Hammer which is supposed to not
* have non e820 covered ISA mappings there, but I had some strange
* problems so it stays for now. -AK
*/
if (type == E820_RAM) {
if (start < 0x100000ULL && end > 0xA0000ULL) {
if (start < 0xA0000ULL)
add_memory_region(start, 0xA0000ULL-start, type);
if (end <= 0x100000ULL)
continue;
start = 0x100000ULL;
size = end - start;
}
}

add_memory_region(start, size, type);
} while (biosmap++,--nr_map);
return 0;
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