x86: disable the GART early, 64-bit

For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more than
4G RAM installed.

when try to use kexec second kernel, and the first doesn't include
gart_shutdown. the second kernel could have different aper position than
the first kernel. and second kernel could use that hole as RAM that is
still used by GART set by the first kernel. esp. when try to kexec
2.6.24 with sparse mem enable from previous kernel (from RHEL 5 or SLES
10). the new kernel will use aper by GART (set by first kernel) for
vmemmap. and after new kernel setting one new GART. the position will be
real RAM. the _mapcount set is lost.

Bad page state in process 'swapper'
page:ffffe2000e600020 flags:0x0000000000000000 mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:1 count:0
Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
Backtrace:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc7-smp-gcdf71a10-dirty #13

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8026401f>] bad_page+0x63/0x8d
 [<ffffffff80264169>] __free_pages_ok+0x7c/0x2a5
 [<ffffffff80ba75d1>] free_all_bootmem_core+0xd0/0x198
 [<ffffffff80ba3a42>] numa_free_all_bootmem+0x3b/0x76
 [<ffffffff80ba3461>] mem_init+0x3b/0x152
 [<ffffffff80b959d3>] start_kernel+0x236/0x2c2
 [<ffffffff80b9511a>] _sinittext+0x11a/0x121

and
 [ffffe2000e600000-ffffe2000e7fffff] PMD ->ffff81001c200000 on node 0
phys addr is : 0x1c200000

RHEL 5.1 kernel -53 said:
PCI-DMA: aperture base @ 1c000000 size 65536 KB

new kernel said:
Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 3c000000

So could try to disable that GART if possible.

According to Ingo

> hm, i'm wondering, instead of modifying the GART, why dont we simply
> _detect_ whatever GART settings we have inherited, and propagate that
> into our e820 maps? I.e. if there's inconsistency, then punch that out
> from the memory maps and just dont use that memory.
>
> that way it would not matter whether the GART settings came from a [old
> or crashing] Linux kernel that has not called gart_iommu_shutdown(), or
> whether it's a BIOS that has set up an aperture hole inconsistent with
> the memory map it passed. (or the memory map we _think_ i tried to pass
> us)
>
> it would also be more robust to only read and do a memory map quirk
> based on that, than actively trying to change the GART so early in the
> bootup. Later on we have to re-enable the GART _anyway_ and have to
> punch a hole for it.
>
> and as a bonus, we would have shored up our defenses against crappy
> BIOSes as well.

add e820 modification for gart inconsistent setting.

gart_fix_e820=off could be used to disable e820 fix.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-x86/gart.h b/include/asm-x86/gart.h
index f704c50519b8..90958ed993fa 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/gart.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/gart.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ extern int iommu_detected;
 extern void gart_iommu_init(void);
 extern void gart_iommu_shutdown(void);
 extern void __init gart_parse_options(char *);
+extern void early_gart_iommu_check(void);
 extern void gart_iommu_hole_init(void);
 extern int fallback_aper_order;
 extern int fallback_aper_force;
@@ -20,6 +21,10 @@ extern int fix_aperture;
 #define gart_iommu_aperture 0
 #define gart_iommu_aperture_allowed 0
 
+static inline void early_gart_iommu_check(void)
+{
+}
+
 static inline void gart_iommu_shutdown(void)
 {
 }