[PATCH 1/2] x86: Make E820_X_MAX unconditionally larger than E820MAX

From: Alex Thorlton
Date: Tue Nov 29 2016 - 22:25:32 EST


It's really not necessary to limit E820_X_MAX to 128 in the non-EFI
case. This commit drops E820_X_MAX's dependency on CONFIG_EFI, so that
E820_X_MAX is always at least slightly larger than E820MAX.

The real motivation behind this is actually to prevent some issues in
the Xen kernel, where the XENMEM_machine_memory_map hypercall can
produce an e820 map larger than 128 entries, even on systems where the
original e820 table was quite a bit smaller than that, depending on how
many IOAPICs are installed on the system.

Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@xxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@xxxxxxx>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
index 476b574..aa00d33 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
#ifndef _ASM_X86_E820_H
#define _ASM_X86_E820_H

-#ifdef CONFIG_EFI
+/*
+ * We need to make sure that E820_X_MAX is defined
+ * before we include uapi/asm/e820.h
+ */
#include <linux/numa.h>
#define E820_X_MAX (E820MAX + 3 * MAX_NUMNODES)
-#else /* ! CONFIG_EFI */
-#define E820_X_MAX E820MAX
-#endif
+
#include <uapi/asm/e820.h>
+
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
/* see comment in arch/x86/kernel/e820.c */
extern struct e820map *e820;
--
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