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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-10 09:10:44 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-10 09:10:44 +0100
commita5a64498c194c82ecad3a2d67cff6231cda8d3dd (patch)
tree723d5d81419f9960b8d30ed9a2ece8a58d6c4328 /arch/powerpc/boot/main.c
parentbb93d802ae5c1949977cc6da247b218240677f11 (diff)
parentf7160c7573615ec82c691e294cf80d920b5d588d (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc4' into timers/rtc
Conflicts: drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/boot/main.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/boot/main.c14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/main.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/main.c
index 9e7f3ddd9913..a28f02165e97 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/main.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/main.c
@@ -56,9 +56,19 @@ static struct addr_range prep_kernel(void)
if (platform_ops.vmlinux_alloc) {
addr = platform_ops.vmlinux_alloc(ei.memsize);
} else {
- if ((unsigned long)_start < ei.memsize)
+ /*
+ * Check if the kernel image (without bss) would overwrite the
+ * bootwrapper. The device tree has been moved in fdt_init()
+ * to an area allocated with malloc() (somewhere past _end).
+ */
+ if ((unsigned long)_start < ei.loadsize)
fatal("Insufficient memory for kernel at address 0!"
- " (_start=%p)\n\r", _start);
+ " (_start=%p, uncompressed size=%08lx)\n\r",
+ _start, ei.loadsize);
+
+ if ((unsigned long)_end < ei.memsize)
+ fatal("The final kernel image would overwrite the "
+ "device tree\n\r");
}
/* Finally, gunzip the kernel */