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    x86_64: disable the GART in shutdown · bc2cea6a
    Yinghai Lu authored
    For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more than 4G
    RAM installed.  when using kexec to load second kernel.  In the second
    kernel, when mem is allocated for GART, it will do the memset for clear, it
    will cause restart, because some device still used that for dma.  solution
    will be:
    
    in second kernel: disable that at first before we try to allocate mem for
    it.  or in the first kernel: do disable that before shutdown.
    Andi/Eric/Alan prefer to second one for clean shutdown in first kernel.
    Andi also point out need to consider to AGP enable but mem less 4G case
    too.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
    Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
    Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
    Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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