Revert "x86/setup: don't remove E820_TYPE_RAM for pfn 0"
authorMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Thu, 4 Feb 2021 18:12:37 +0000 (20:12 +0200)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 4 Feb 2021 18:26:53 +0000 (10:26 -0800)
commit5c279c4cf206e03995e04fd3404fa95ffd243a97
tree746b46f6bab34dc4057d81deda7ea6bed0cc9410
parent927002ed29e2dda6dfacb87fe582d5495a03f096
Revert "x86/setup: don't remove E820_TYPE_RAM for pfn 0"

This reverts commit bde9cfa3afe4324ec251e4af80ebf9b7afaf7afe.

Changing the first memory page type from E820_TYPE_RESERVED to
E820_TYPE_RAM makes it a part of "System RAM" resource rather than a
reserved resource and this in turn causes devmem_is_allowed() to treat
is as area that can be accessed but it is filled with zeroes instead of
the actual data as previously.

The change in /dev/mem output causes lilo to fail as was reported at
slakware users forum, and probably other legacy applications will
experience similar problems.

Link: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-current-lilo-vesa-warnings-after-recent-updates-4175689617/#post6214439
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c