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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 37 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c index 85cbd3cd372..070ee4a3b22 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c @@ -333,11 +333,20 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned long req_type, req_type & _PAGE_CACHE_MASK); } - is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end); - if (is_range_ram == 1) - return reserve_ram_pages_type(start, end, req_type, new_type); - else if (is_range_ram < 0) - return -EINVAL; + /* + * For legacy reasons, some parts of the physical address range in the + * legacy 1MB region is treated as non-RAM (even when listed as RAM in + * the e820 tables). So we will track the memory attributes of this + * legacy 1MB region using the linear memtype_list always. + */ + if (end >= ISA_END_ADDRESS) { + is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end); + if (is_range_ram == 1) + return reserve_ram_pages_type(start, end, req_type, + new_type); + else if (is_range_ram < 0) + return -EINVAL; + } new = kmalloc(sizeof(struct memtype), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new) @@ -437,11 +446,19 @@ int free_memtype(u64 start, u64 end) if (is_ISA_range(start, end - 1)) return 0; - is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end); - if (is_range_ram == 1) - return free_ram_pages_type(start, end); - else if (is_range_ram < 0) - return -EINVAL; + /* + * For legacy reasons, some parts of the physical address range in the + * legacy 1MB region is treated as non-RAM (even when listed as RAM in + * the e820 tables). So we will track the memory attributes of this + * legacy 1MB region using the linear memtype_list always. + */ + if (end >= ISA_END_ADDRESS) { + is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end); + if (is_range_ram == 1) + return free_ram_pages_type(start, end); + else if (is_range_ram < 0) + return -EINVAL; + } spin_lock(&memtype_lock); list_for_each_entry(entry, &memtype_list, nd) { |