x86/gart: Rewrite early_gart_iommu_check() comment
... to actually explain what the function is trying to do. Reported-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181101155314.30690-1-bp@alien8.de
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@ -264,18 +264,23 @@ static int __init parse_gart_mem(char *p)
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early_param("gart_fix_e820", parse_gart_mem);
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/*
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* With kexec/kdump, if the first kernel doesn't shut down the GART and the
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* second kernel allocates a different GART region, there might be two
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* overlapping GART regions present:
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*
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* - the first still used by the GART initialized in the first kernel.
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* - (sub-)set of it used as normal RAM by the second kernel.
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*
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* which leads to memory corruptions and a kernel panic eventually.
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*
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* This can also happen if the BIOS has forgotten to mark the GART region
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* as reserved.
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*
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* Try to update the e820 map to mark that new region as reserved.
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*/
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void __init early_gart_iommu_check(void)
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{
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/*
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* in case it is enabled before, esp for kexec/kdump,
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* previous kernel already enable that. memset called
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* by allocate_aperture/__alloc_bootmem_nopanic cause restart.
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* or second kernel have different position for GART hole. and new
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* kernel could use hole as RAM that is still used by GART set by
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* first kernel
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* or BIOS forget to put that in reserved.
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* try to update e820 to make that region as reserved.
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*/
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u32 agp_aper_order = 0;
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int i, fix, slot, valid_agp = 0;
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u32 ctl;
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