This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
parisc: Increase KERNEL_INITIAL_SIZE for 32-bit SMP kernels
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
parisc-increase-kernel_initial_size-for-32-bit-smp-kernels.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 690d097c00c88fa9d93d198591e184164b1d8c20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 18:19:55 +0200
Subject: parisc: Increase KERNEL_INITIAL_SIZE for 32-bit SMP kernels
From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
commit 690d097c00c88fa9d93d198591e184164b1d8c20 upstream.
Increase the initial kernel default page mapping size for SMP kernels to 32MB
and add a runtime check which panics early if the kernel is bigger than the
initial mapping size.
This fixes boot crashes of 32bit SMP kernels. Due to the introduction of huge
page support in kernel 4.4 and it's required initial kernel layout in memory, a
32bit SMP kernel usually got bigger (in layout, not size) than 16MB.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +-
arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static inline void purge_tlb_entries(str
printk("%s:%d: bad pgd %08lx.\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, (unsigned long)pgd_val(e))
/* This is the size of the initially mapped kernel memory */
-#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+#if defined(CONFIG_64BIT) || defined(CONFIG_SMP)
#define KERNEL_INITIAL_ORDER 25 /* 1<<25 = 32MB */
#else
#define KERNEL_INITIAL_ORDER 24 /* 1<<24 = 16MB */
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/pdc.h>
#include <asm/led.h>
#include <asm/machdep.h> /* for pa7300lc_init() proto */
@@ -140,6 +141,13 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
#endif
printk(KERN_CONT ".\n");
+ /*
+ * Check if initial kernel page mappings are sufficient.
+ * panic early if not, else we may access kernel functions
+ * and variables which can't be reached.
+ */
+ if (__pa((unsigned long) &_end) >= KERNEL_INITIAL_SIZE)
+ panic("KERNEL_INITIAL_ORDER too small!");
pdc_console_init();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from deller@xxxxxx are
queue-4.4/parisc-fix-kernel-memory-layout-regarding-position-of-__gp.patch
queue-4.4/parisc-increase-initial-kernel-mapping-size.patch
queue-4.4/parisc-increase-kernel_initial_size-for-32-bit-smp-kernels.patch
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