[PATCH 6/6] x86: if kernel .text .data .bss are not marked as E820_RAM, complain and fix

[Jacob Shin]

There could be cases where user supplied memmap=exactmap memory
mappings do not mark the region where the kernel .text .data and
.bss reside as E820_RAM, as reported here:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/14/86

Handle it by complaining, and adding the range back into the e820.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index a2e392e..68f82d2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -913,6 +913,20 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	insert_resource(&iomem_resource, &data_resource);
 	insert_resource(&iomem_resource, &bss_resource);
 
+	/*
+	 * Complain if .text .data and .bss are not marked as E820_RAM and
+	 * attempt to fix it by adding the range. We may have a confused BIOS,
+	 * or the user may have incorrectly supplied it via memmap=exactmap. If
+	 * we really are running on top non-RAM, we will crash later anyways.
+	 */
+	if (!e820_all_mapped(code_resource.start, __pa(__brk_limit), E820_RAM)) {
+		pr_warn(".text .data .bss are not marked as E820_RAM!\n");
+
+		e820_add_region(code_resource.start,
+				__pa(__brk_limit) - code_resource.start + 1,
+				E820_RAM);
+	}
+
 	trim_bios_range();
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 	if (ppro_with_ram_bug()) {
-- 
1.7.9.5


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