x86: fix spontaneous reboot with allyesconfig bzImage

recently the 64-bit allyesconfig bzImage kernel started spontaneously
rebooting during early bootup.

after a few fun hours spent with early init debugging, it turns out
that we've got this rather annoying limit on the size of the kernel
image:

      #define KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE  (40*1024*1024)

which limit my vmlinux just happened to pass:

       text           data       bss        dec       hex   filename
   29703744        4222751   8646224   42572719   2899baf   vmlinux

40 MB is 42572719 bytes, so my vmlinux was just 1.5% above this limit :-/

So it happily crashed right in head_64.S, which - as we all know - is
the most debuggable code in the whole architecture ;-)

So increase the limit to allow an up to 128MB kernel image to be mapped.
(should anyone be that crazy or lazy)

We have a full 4K of pagetable (level2_kernel_pgt) allocated for these
mappings already, so there's no RAM overhead and the limit was rather
pointless and arbitrary.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 6dbb0035c57a..a02a14f0f324 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -172,8 +172,9 @@ set_pte_phys(unsigned long vaddr, unsigned long phys, pgprot_t prot)
 }
 
 /*
- * The head.S code sets up the kernel high mapping from:
- * __START_KERNEL_map to __START_KERNEL_map + KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE
+ * The head.S code sets up the kernel high mapping:
+ *
+ *   from __START_KERNEL_map to __START_KERNEL_map + size (== _end-_text)
  *
  * phys_addr holds the negative offset to the kernel, which is added
  * to the compile time generated pmds. This results in invalid pmds up