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Subject[PATCH] memblock: Fix big size with find_region()

When trying to find huge range for crashkernel, get

[ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 0.000000] WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/memblock.c:248 memblock_x86_reserve_range+0x40/0x7a()
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: Sun Fire x4800
[ 0.000000] memblock_x86_reserve_range: wrong range [0xffffffff37000000, 0x137000000)
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.36-rc5-tip-yh-01876-g1cac214-dirty #59
[ 0.000000] Call Trace:
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff82816f7e>] ? memblock_x86_reserve_range+0x40/0x7a
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81078c2d>] warn_slowpath_common+0x85/0x9e
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81078d38>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x6e/0x70
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8281e77c>] ? memblock_find_region+0x40/0x78
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8281eb1f>] ? memblock_find_base+0x9a/0xb9
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff82816f7e>] memblock_x86_reserve_range+0x40/0x7a
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8280452c>] setup_arch+0x99d/0xb2a
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810a3e02>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0xf
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81cec7d8>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3d/0x4c
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff827ffcec>] start_kernel+0xde/0x3f1
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff827ff2d4>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xa0/0xa4
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff827ff3de>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x106/0x10d
[ 0.000000] ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
[ 0.000000] Reserving 8192MB of memory at 17592186041200MB for crashkernel (System RAM: 526336MB)

Because memblock_find_region() can not handle size > end, base will be set to huge num.

Try to check size with end.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
---
mm/memblock.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/memblock.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memblock.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/memblock.c
@@ -105,13 +105,18 @@ static phys_addr_t __init memblock_find_
phys_addr_t base, res_base;
long j;

+ /* In case, huge size is requested */
+ if (end < size)
+ return MEMBLOCK_ERROR;
+
+ base = memblock_align_down((end - size), align);
+
/* Prevent allocations returning 0 as it's also used to
* indicate an allocation failure
*/
if (start == 0)
start = PAGE_SIZE;

- base = memblock_align_down((end - size), align);
while (start <= base) {
j = memblock_overlaps_region(&memblock.reserved, base, size);
if (j < 0)

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