linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 26/39] nobootmem: use lmb.default_alloc_limit in alloc

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Message-ID: <1271132589.13059.67.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:23:09 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 26/39] nobootmem: use lmb.default_alloc_limit in
 alloc_bootmem path

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 23:03 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Generic version __lmb_find_area() is going from high to low, and for 32bit
> active_region for 32bit does include high pages
> 
> need to replace the limit with lmb.default_alloc_limit, aka get_max_mapped()
> 
> with this patch, x86 32bit could use generic version of __lmb_find_area()

So you unconditionally add access to some lmb specific data structure to
generic code ? That isn't going to work very well on archs that don't
use lmb.

Also, those things should be local to lmb_* anyways.

Cheers,
Ben.

> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 79bd44b..256aed0 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -3445,6 +3445,9 @@ void * __init __alloc_memory_core_early(int nid, u64 size, u64 align,
>  
>  	u64 addr;
>  
> +	if (limit > lmb.default_alloc_limit)
> +		limit = lmb.default_alloc_limit;
> +
>  	addr = find_memory_core_early(nid, size, align, goal, limit);
>  
>  	if (addr == -1ULL)


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