linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: nobootmem: Correct alloc

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Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:12:46 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yinghai@...nel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: nobootmem: Correct alloc_bootmem semantics.

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:10:50PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> 
> The comments above __alloc_bootmem_node() claim that the code will
> first try the allocation using 'goal' and if that fails it will
> try again but with the 'goal' requirement dropped.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is not what the code does, so fix it to do so.
> 
> This is important for nobootmem conversions to architectures such
> as sparc where MAX_DMA_ADDRESS is infinity.
> 
> On such architectures all of the allocations done by generic spots,
> such as the sparse-vmemmap implementation, will pass in:
> 
> 	__pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)
> 
> as the goal, and with the limit given as "-1" this will always fail
> unless we add the appropriate fallback logic here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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