kernel_optimize_test/arch
Yinghai Lu c967da6a0b x86: Make sure free_init_pages() frees pages on page boundary
When CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM=y, it could use memory more effiently, or
in a more compact fashion.

Example:

 Allocated new RAMDISK: 00ec2000 - 0248ce57
 Move RAMDISK from 000000002ea04000 - 000000002ffcee56 to 00ec2000 - 0248ce56

The new RAMDISK's end is not page aligned.
Last page could be shared with other users.

When free_init_pages are called for initrd or .init, the page
could be freed and we could corrupt other data.

code segment in free_init_pages():

 |        for (; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
 |                ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(addr));
 |                init_page_count(virt_to_page(addr));
 |                memset((void *)(addr & ~(PAGE_SIZE-1)),
 |                        POISON_FREE_INITMEM, PAGE_SIZE);
 |                free_page(addr);
 |                totalram_pages++;
 |        }

last half page could be used as one whole free page.

So page align the boundaries.

-v2: make the original initramdisk to be aligned, according to
     Johannes, otherwise we have the chance to lose one page.
     we still need to keep initrd_end not aligned, otherwise it could
     confuse decompressor.
-v3: change to WARN_ON instead, suggested by Johannes.
-v4: use PAGE_ALIGN, suggested by Johannes.
     We may fix that macro name later to PAGE_ALIGN_UP, and PAGE_ALIGN_DOWN
     Add comments about assuming ramdisk start is aligned
     in relocate_initrd(), change to re get ramdisk_image instead of save it
     to make diff smaller. Add warning for wrong range, suggested by Johannes.
-v6: remove one WARN()
     We need to align beginning in free_init_pages()
     do not copy more than ramdisk_size, noticed by Johannes

Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1269830604-26214-3-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-29 18:55:33 +02:00
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alpha alpha: fix compile errors in dma-mapping-common.h 2010-03-18 22:35:28 -04:00
arm [ARM] Orion5x: replace KEY_WLAN with KEY_WPS_BUTTON 2010-03-23 13:48:15 -04:00
avr32 avr32: use generic ptrace_resume code 2010-03-12 15:52:38 -08:00
blackfin Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin 2010-03-18 17:02:35 -07:00
cris Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
frv frv/PCI: remove redundant warnings 2010-03-25 08:51:40 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
ia64 ACPI: processor: driver doesn't need to evaluate _PDC 2010-03-14 21:17:22 -04:00
m32r m32r: use generic ptrace_resume code 2010-03-12 15:52:39 -08:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
m68knommu m68knommu: use generic ptrace_resume code 2010-03-12 15:52:38 -08:00
microblaze Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze 2010-03-18 16:57:24 -07:00
mips init dynamic bin_attribute structures 2010-03-14 20:28:39 -07:00
mn10300 dma-mapping: mn10300: remove the obsolete and unnecessary DMA API comments 2010-03-12 15:52:42 -08:00
parisc pci-dma: add linux/pci-dma.h to linux/pci.h 2010-03-12 15:52:42 -08:00
powerpc Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-26 15:09:33 -07:00
s390 [S390] fix boot failures with compressed kernels 2010-03-24 11:49:54 +01:00
score ptrace: move user_enable_single_step & co prototypes to linux/ptrace.h 2010-03-12 15:52:38 -08:00
sh sh: Silence unintialized variable warnings in dwarf unwinder. 2010-03-23 17:07:41 +09:00
sparc Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-13 14:39:42 -08:00
um um: remove dma_sync_single_range 2010-03-12 15:52:40 -08:00
x86 x86: Make sure free_init_pages() frees pages on page boundary 2010-03-29 18:55:33 +02:00
xtensa Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
.gitignore arch: Ignore arch/i386 and arch/x86_64 2008-01-19 21:29:39 -08:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'perf-probes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-05 10:50:22 -08:00