On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:28:33AM -0700, David Daney wrote: > Commit abe77f90dc (MIPS: Octeon: Add kexec and kdump support) added a > bootmem region for the kernel image itself. The problem is that this > is rounded up to a 0x100000 boundary, which is memory that may not be > owned by the kernel. Depending on the kernel's configuration based > size, this 'extra' memory may contain data passed from the bootloader > to the kernel itself, which if clobbered makes the kernel crash in > various ways. > > The fix: Quit rounding the size up, so that we only use memory > assigned to the kernel. > > Can be applied to v3.8 and later. Thanks, applied. Will send to Linus with the next pull request. Ralf
