linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: fix bug which VMALLOC

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Message-ID: <20150903080028.GS21084@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 3 Sep 2015 09:00:28 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Yongtaek Lee <ytk.lee@...sung.com>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: fix bug which VMALLOC_START is lowwer than
 0xf0000000

On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 11:24:47AM +0900, Yongtaek Lee wrote:
> default value of vmalloc_min was set 0xf0000000 for ARM by commit
> 0536bdf3. But actually vmalloc_min is 0xef800000 not 0xf0000000.
> 
> VMALLOC_END - (240 << 20) - VMALLOC_OFFSET)
> 0xff000000 - 0x0f000000 - 0x00800000 = 0xef800000
> 
> In case of 768MB ram without CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y, last 8MB could not be
> allocated. Kernel log also print out warning message as below.
> "Truncating RAM at 80000000-afffffff to -af7fffff (vmalloc region overlap)."
> 
> Although it could be solved by state "vmalloc=size" in cmdline but i think
> it would be better to change default value to 232 from 240.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yongtaek Lee <ytk.lee@...sung.com>

I fail to see what the problem is here.  You're adjusting the size of the
vmalloc space to accomodate the size of RAM you have.  That's not a bug.

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