linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memblock: Add limit checking to memblock_virt

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Message-ID: <CAOesGMifCTzHaK4TqKeGJ+Kup2XmcL7UGxZuQWB2V9dHboBr9A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:08:54 -0800
From:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memblock: Add limit checking to memblock_virt_alloc

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> In original bootmem wrapper for memblock, we have limit checking.
>
> Add it to memblock_virt_alloc, to address arm and x86 booting crash.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>

Tested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>

Verified to resolve the crashes on boot on ARM.


-Olof
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