Hi Robert,
I beleive that the attached+inserted patch should have the desired
characteristics. Can you check it out to ensure it does nothing silly.
(This same check may also be valid for SPARC64)
--- linux-2.6/arch/sparc/mm/init.c 2007-08-14 23:24:41.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-mark/arch/sparc/mm/init.c 2007-08-27 13:09:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ unsigned long __init bootmem_init(unsign
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
/* Now have to check initial ramdisk, so that bootmap does not
overwrite it */
if (sparc_ramdisk_image) {
- if (sparc_ramdisk_image >= (unsigned long)&_end - 2 * PAGE_SIZE)
+ if (sparc_ramdisk_image >= KERNBASE)
sparc_ramdisk_image -= KERNBASE;
initrd_start = sparc_ramdisk_image + phys_base;
initrd_end = initrd_start + sparc_ramdisk_size;
From: Mark Fortescue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[SPARC32]: Fix bogus ramdisk image location check.
It was originally thought that sparc_ramdisk_image should always be decremented
by KERNBASE so the check could just be dropped, but it turns out that this is
not the case. Just checking if the image is greater than KERNBASE should be
sufficient to correctly identify if the correction is needed and avoids any
posible issues with changes to the linker script ordering that are present if
&end is used with a fixed 2 page offset.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
This same check may also be valid for SPARC64
--- linux-2.6/arch/sparc/mm/init.c 2007-08-14 23:24:41.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-mark/arch/sparc/mm/init.c 2007-08-27 13:09:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ unsigned long __init bootmem_init(unsign
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
/* Now have to check initial ramdisk, so that bootmap does not
overwrite it */
if (sparc_ramdisk_image) {
- if (sparc_ramdisk_image >= (unsigned long)&_end - 2 * PAGE_SIZE)
+ if (sparc_ramdisk_image >= KERNBASE)
sparc_ramdisk_image -= KERNBASE;
initrd_start = sparc_ramdisk_image + phys_base;
initrd_end = initrd_start + sparc_ramdisk_size;
