While _text is currently aligned to PAGE_SIZE in the vmlinux linker
script because it's based on CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN, it's always better
to be explicit about these things to be sure no alignment bugs are
lurking. There's no analogous enforcement for _end.
Dave provided an example of why the 'npages' calculation is wrong,
"Just for fun, imagine that _end=0xfff and _text=0x1001. npages
would be 0."
Use PFN_ALIGN() to be sure the calculation is correctly aligned to
PAGE_SIZE.
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prak...@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <m...@codeblueprint.co.uk>
---
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
index a0ac0f9c307f..3a90eb72d153 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ int __init efi_setup_page_tables(unsigned long pa_memmap,
unsigned num_pages)
efi_scratch.phys_stack = virt_to_phys(page_address(page));
efi_scratch.phys_stack += PAGE_SIZE; /* stack grows down */
- npages = (_end - _text) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ npages = (PFN_ALIGN(_end) - PFN_ALIGN(_text)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
text = __pa(_text);
if (kernel_map_pages_in_pgd(pgd, text >> PAGE_SHIFT, text, npages, 0)) {
--
2.6.2
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