On 64-bit powerpc, usage of a non-16MB-aligned value for the mem= kernel
cmdline parameter results in a system hang at boot.
For example, using 'mem=4198400K' will always reproduce this issue.
This patch fixes the problem by aligning any argument to mem= to 16MB
corresponding with the large page size on powerpc.
Fixes: 2babf5c2ec2f ("[PATCH] powerpc: Unify mem= handling")
Co-developed-by: Gonzalo Siero <gsier...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gonzalo Siero <gsier...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsav...@redhat.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 0b5878c3125b..8cd3e2445d8a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -82,8 +82,12 @@ static int __init early_parse_mem(char *p)
{
if (!p)
return 1;
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+ /* Align to 16 MB == size of ppc64 large page */
+ memory_limit = ALIGN(memparse(p, &p), 0x1000000);
+#else
memory_limit = PAGE_ALIGN(memparse(p, &p));
+#endif
DBG("memory limit = 0x%llx\n", memory_limit);
return 0;
--
2.43.0
