linux-kernel - PATCH] mm: Use alloc_bootmem_node

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Message-ID: <4DC47655.5040201@kernel.org>
Date:	Fri, 06 May 2011 15:29:41 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Stefan Hellermann <stefan@...2masters.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: PATCH] mm: Use alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic on really needed path


Stefan found nobootmem does not work on his system that only have 8M ram.

It turns out we should ignore the low limit the 16M.

Use alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic in those calling.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Hellermann <stefan@...2masters.de>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai LU <yinghai@...nel.org>

---
 include/linux/bootmem.h |    2 ++
 mm/page_alloc.c         |    6 +++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/bootmem.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/bootmem.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/bootmem.h
@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ extern void *__alloc_bootmem_low_node(pg
 	__alloc_bootmem_nopanic(x, PAGE_SIZE, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS))
 #define alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, x) \
 	__alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS))
+#define alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pgdat, x) \
+	__alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pgdat, x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS))
 #define alloc_bootmem_pages_node(pgdat, x) \
 	__alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, x, PAGE_SIZE, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS))
 #define alloc_bootmem_pages_node_nopanic(pgdat, x) \
Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3564,7 +3564,7 @@ int zone_wait_table_init(struct zone *zo
 
 	if (!slab_is_available()) {
 		zone->wait_table = (wait_queue_head_t *)
-			alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, alloc_size);
+			alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pgdat, alloc_size);
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * This case means that a zone whose size was 0 gets new memory
@@ -4141,7 +4141,7 @@ static void __init setup_usemap(struct p
 	unsigned long usemapsize = usemap_size(zonesize);
 	zone->pageblock_flags = NULL;
 	if (usemapsize)
-		zone->pageblock_flags = alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, usemapsize);
+		zone->pageblock_flags = alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pgdat, usemapsize);
 }
 #else
 static inline void setup_usemap(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
@@ -4307,7 +4307,7 @@ static void __init_refok alloc_node_mem_
 		size =  (end - start) * sizeof(struct page);
 		map = alloc_remap(pgdat->node_id, size);
 		if (!map)
-			map = alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, size);
+			map = alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pgdat, size);
 		pgdat->node_mem_map = map + (pgdat->node_start_pfn - start);
 	}
 #ifndef CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
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