From: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 15:58:52 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] x86-64: Handle empty E820 regions correctly
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[PATCH] x86-64: Handle empty E820 regions correctly

Brings sanitize_e820_map() in x86-64 in sync with that of i386.

x86_64 version was missing the changes from this patch.
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@3e5e4083Y3HevldZl5KCy94V4DcZww?nav=index.html|src/|src/arch|src/arch/i386|src/arch/i386/kernel|related/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c
index 56516ac92e5d..7c154dfff64a 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
  * Handle the memory map.
  * The functions here do the job until bootmem takes over.
  * $Id: e820.c,v 1.4 2002/09/19 19:25:32 ak Exp $
+ *
+ *  Getting sanitize_e820_map() in sync with i386 version by applying change:
+ *  -  Provisions for empty E820 memory regions (reported by certain BIOSes).
+ *     Alex Achenbach <xela@slit.de>, December 2002.
+ *  Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
+ *
  */
 #include <linux/config.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -277,7 +283,7 @@ static int __init sanitize_e820_map(struct e820entry * biosmap, char * pnr_map)
 	int chgidx, still_changing;
 	int overlap_entries;
 	int new_bios_entry;
-	int old_nr, new_nr;
+	int old_nr, new_nr, chg_nr;
 	int i;
 
 	/*
@@ -331,20 +337,24 @@ static int __init sanitize_e820_map(struct e820entry * biosmap, char * pnr_map)
 	for (i=0; i < 2*old_nr; i++)
 		change_point[i] = &change_point_list[i];
 
-	/* record all known change-points (starting and ending addresses) */
+	/* record all known change-points (starting and ending addresses),
+	   omitting those that are for empty memory regions */
 	chgidx = 0;
 	for (i=0; i < old_nr; i++)	{
-		change_point[chgidx]->addr = biosmap[i].addr;
-		change_point[chgidx++]->pbios = &biosmap[i];
-		change_point[chgidx]->addr = biosmap[i].addr + biosmap[i].size;
-		change_point[chgidx++]->pbios = &biosmap[i];
+		if (biosmap[i].size != 0) {
+			change_point[chgidx]->addr = biosmap[i].addr;
+			change_point[chgidx++]->pbios = &biosmap[i];
+			change_point[chgidx]->addr = biosmap[i].addr + biosmap[i].size;
+			change_point[chgidx++]->pbios = &biosmap[i];
+		}
 	}
+	chg_nr = chgidx;
 
 	/* sort change-point list by memory addresses (low -> high) */
 	still_changing = 1;
 	while (still_changing)	{
 		still_changing = 0;
-		for (i=1; i < 2*old_nr; i++)  {
+		for (i=1; i < chg_nr; i++)  {
 			/* if <current_addr> > <last_addr>, swap */
 			/* or, if current=<start_addr> & last=<end_addr>, swap */
 			if ((change_point[i]->addr < change_point[i-1]->addr) ||
@@ -367,7 +377,7 @@ static int __init sanitize_e820_map(struct e820entry * biosmap, char * pnr_map)
 	last_type = 0;		 /* start with undefined memory type */
 	last_addr = 0;		 /* start with 0 as last starting address */
 	/* loop through change-points, determining affect on the new bios map */
-	for (chgidx=0; chgidx < 2*old_nr; chgidx++)
+	for (chgidx=0; chgidx < chg_nr; chgidx++)
 	{
 		/* keep track of all overlapping bios entries */
 		if (change_point[chgidx]->addr == change_point[chgidx]->pbios->addr)