commit: bed9a31527af8ff3dfbad62a1a42815cef4baab7
From: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:15:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: pseries: Fix kexec on machines with more than 4TB
 of RAM

On a box with 8TB of RAM the MMU hashtable is 64GB in size. That
means we have 4G PTEs. pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear was using a signed
int to store the index which will overflow at 2G.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c 
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
index f7205d3..225aecf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static void pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear(void)
                unsigned long ptel;
        } ptes[4];
        long lpar_rc;
-       int i, j;
+       unsigned long i, j;
 
        /* Read in batches of 4,
         * invalidate only valid entries not in the VRMA

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