[PATCH 3/14] uml: physical memory shouldn't include initial stack

From: Jeff Dike
Date: Tue Aug 05 2008 - 16:19:46 EST


>From 60a2988aea701a6424809a5432bf068667aac177

The top of physical memory should be below the initial process stack, not the
top of the address space, at least for as long as the stack isn't known to the
kernel VM system and appropriately reserved.

Cc: "Christopher S. Aker" <caker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c b/arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c
index a6c1dd1..9cecb42 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ int __init linux_main(int argc, char **argv)
unsigned long avail, diff;
unsigned long virtmem_size, max_physmem;
unsigned int i, add;
+ unsigned long stack;
char * mode;

for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
@@ -347,7 +348,9 @@ int __init linux_main(int argc, char **argv)
}

virtmem_size = physmem_size;
- avail = TASK_SIZE - start_vm;
+ stack = (unsigned long) argv;
+ stack &= ~(1024 * 1024 - 1);
+ avail = stack - start_vm;
if (physmem_size > avail)
virtmem_size = avail;
end_vm = start_vm + virtmem_size;
--
1.5.5.1

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