2.6.2: Add user friendliness to highmem= option

diff -uN -r -X /home/mhf/sys/dont/dontdiff linux-2.6.2-Vanilla/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c linux-2.6.2-mhf177/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
@@ -581,9 +581,12 @@
 #endif /* CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT */
 
 		/*
-		 * highmem=size forces highmem to be exactly 'size' bytes.
+		 * highmem=size forces highmem to be at most 'size' bytes.
 		 * This works even on boxes that have no highmem otherwise.
 		 * This also works to reduce highmem size on bigger boxes.
+		 *
+		 * Note: highmem sise is adjusted downward for proper zone
+		 *       alignment of the highmem physical start address.
 		 */
 		if (c == ' ' && !memcmp(from, "highmem=", 8))
 			highmem_pages = memparse(from+8, &from) >> PAGE_SHIFT;

@@ -650,6 +653,11 @@
 /*
  * Determine low and high memory ranges:
  */
+
+#define ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT (1UL << (MAX_ORDER-1))
+#define ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT_MASK (ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT-1)
+#define PAGES_FOR_64MB (64*1024*1024/PAGE_SIZE)
+
 unsigned long __init find_max_low_pfn(void)
 {
 	unsigned long max_low_pfn;

@@ -661,14 +669,16 @@
 		if (highmem_pages + MAXMEM_PFN < max_pfn)
 			max_pfn = MAXMEM_PFN + highmem_pages;
 		if (highmem_pages + MAXMEM_PFN > max_pfn) {
-			printk("only %luMB highmem pages available, ignoring highmem size of %uMB.\n", pages_to_mb(max_pfn - MAXMEM_PFN), pages_to_mb(highmem_pages));
-			highmem_pages = 0;
+			printk("Warning reducing highmem=%uMB to: %luMB.\n",
+			       pages_to_mb(highmem_pages),
+			       pages_to_mb((max_pfn - MAXMEM_PFN)));
+			highmem_pages = max_pfn - MAXMEM_PFN;
 		}
 		max_low_pfn = MAXMEM_PFN;
 #ifndef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 		/* Maximum memory usable is what is directly addressable */
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning only %ldMB will be used.\n",
-					MAXMEM>>20);
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning only %dMB will be used.\n",
+		       MAXMEM>>20);
 		if (max_pfn > MAX_NONPAE_PFN)
 			printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a PAE enabled kernel.\n");
 		else

@@ -683,26 +693,61 @@
 		}
 #endif /* !CONFIG_X86_PAE */
 #endif /* !CONFIG_HIGHMEM */
-	} else {
-		if (highmem_pages == -1)
-			highmem_pages = 0;
+	} else if (highmem_pages == -1)
+		highmem_pages = 0;
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
-		if (highmem_pages >= max_pfn) {
-			printk(KERN_ERR "highmem size specified (%uMB) is bigger than pages available (%luMB)!.\n", pages_to_mb(highmem_pages), pages_to_mb(max_pfn));
-			highmem_pages = 0;
-		}
-		if (highmem_pages) {
-			if (max_low_pfn-highmem_pages < 64*1024*1024/PAGE_SIZE){
-				printk(KERN_ERR "highmem size %uMB results in smaller than 64MB lowmem, ignoring it.\n", pages_to_mb(highmem_pages));
-				highmem_pages = 0;
-			}
-			max_low_pfn -= highmem_pages;
-		}
+	if (!highmem_pages)
+		goto out;
+	if (max_pfn < PAGES_FOR_64MB + ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT * 2) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR
+		       "Error highmem support requires at least %luMB but only %luMB are available.\n",
+		       pages_to_mb(PAGES_FOR_64MB + ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT * 2),
+		       pages_to_mb(max_pfn));
+		highmem_pages = 0;
+		goto out;
+	}
+	if (highmem_pages > max_pfn) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING
+		       "Warning highmem=%uMB is bigger than available %luMB and will be adjusted.\n",
+		       pages_to_mb(highmem_pages), pages_to_mb(max_pfn));
+	}
+	if (highmem_pages <= ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING
+		       "Warning highmem=%uMB is too small and has been adjusted to: %luMB.\n",
+		       pages_to_mb(highmem_pages),
+		       pages_to_mb(ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT * 2));
+		highmem_pages = ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT * 2;
+	}
+	if (max_low_pfn < highmem_pages || max_low_pfn-highmem_pages < PAGES_FOR_64MB){
+		highmem_pages = max_low_pfn - PAGES_FOR_64MB;
+		printk(KERN_WARNING
+		       "Warning highmem size adjusted for a minimum of 64MB lowmem to: %uMB.\n",
+		       pages_to_mb(highmem_pages));
+	}
+	max_low_pfn -= highmem_pages;
+	goto out;
+	/* remove this when done testing bad zone alignment kernel shutdown: end */
+
+	if (max_low_pfn & ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT_MASK) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING
+		       "Warning bad highmem zone alignment 0x%lx, highmem size will be adjusted.\n",
+		       (max_low_pfn & ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT_MASK) << PAGE_SHIFT);
+		highmem_pages -= ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT -
+			(max_low_pfn & ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT_MASK);
+		max_low_pfn &= ~ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT_MASK;
+		max_low_pfn += ZONE_REQUIRED_PAGE_ALIGNMENT;
+		printk(KERN_WARNING
+		       "Warning lowmem size adjusted  for zone alignment to: %luMB.\n",
+		       pages_to_mb(max_low_pfn));
+		printk(KERN_WARNING
+		       "Warning highmem size adjusted for zone alignment to: %uMB.\n",
+		        pages_to_mb(highmem_pages));
+	}
 #else
-		if (highmem_pages)
-			printk(KERN_ERR "ignoring highmem size on non-highmem kernel!\n");
+	if (highmem_pages)
+		printk(KERN_ERR "ignoring highmem size on non-highmem kernel!\n");
 #endif
-	}
+out:
 	return max_low_pfn;
 }