[PATCH] PPC64: Don't try to claim memory from OF at 1GB mark

Some RS64-based machines (p620, F80, others) have problems with firmware
returning 0xdeadbeef instead of failure to allocations that end at the
1GB mark.

We have two options:
1. Detect the undocumented 0xdeadbeef return value and interpret it as
a failure.
2. Avoid allocating that high.

(2) is really the cleaner solution here. 768MB is plenty of room so use
that as the max alloc_top instead of 1GB.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

authored by

Olof Johansson and committed by
Paul Mackerras
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arch/ppc64/kernel/prom_init.c
··· 892 if ( RELOC(of_platform) == PLATFORM_PSERIES_LPAR ) 893 RELOC(alloc_top) = RELOC(rmo_top); 894 else 895 - RELOC(alloc_top) = RELOC(rmo_top) = min(0x40000000ul, RELOC(ram_top)); 896 897 prom_printf("memory layout at init:\n"); 898 prom_printf(" memory_limit : %x (16 MB aligned)\n", RELOC(prom_memory_limit));
··· 892 if ( RELOC(of_platform) == PLATFORM_PSERIES_LPAR ) 893 RELOC(alloc_top) = RELOC(rmo_top); 894 else 895 + /* Some RS64 machines have buggy firmware where claims up at 1GB 896 + * fails. Cap at 768MB as a workaround. Still plenty of room. 897 + */ 898 + RELOC(alloc_top) = RELOC(rmo_top) = min(0x30000000ul, RELOC(ram_top)); 899 900 prom_printf("memory layout at init:\n"); 901 prom_printf(" memory_limit : %x (16 MB aligned)\n", RELOC(prom_memory_limit));