linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 071/218] of: alloc anywhere from memblock if range not specified

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Message-Id: <1459455431-12687-72-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:14:44 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@...eaurora.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 071/218] of: alloc anywhere from memblock if range not specified

4.2.8-ckt7 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

---8<------------------------------------------------------------

From: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@...eaurora.org>

commit e53b50c0cbe392c946807abf7d07615a3c588642 upstream.

early_init_dt_alloc_reserved_memory_arch passes end as 0 to
__memblock_alloc_base, when limits are not specified. But
__memblock_alloc_base takes end value of 0 as MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE
and limits the end to memblock.current_limit. This results in regions
never being placed in HIGHMEM area, for e.g. CMA.
Let __memblock_alloc_base allocate from anywhere in memory if limits are
not specified.

Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c b/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c
index 56c23ee..be4f65c 100644
--- a/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c
+++ b/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c
@@ -31,11 +31,13 @@ int __init __weak early_init_dt_alloc_reserved_memory_arch(phys_addr_t size,
 	phys_addr_t align, phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end, bool nomap,
 	phys_addr_t *res_base)
 {
+	phys_addr_t base;
 	/*
 	 * We use __memblock_alloc_base() because memblock_alloc_base()
 	 * panic()s on allocation failure.
 	 */
-	phys_addr_t base = __memblock_alloc_base(size, align, end);
+	end = !end ? MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE : end;
+	base = __memblock_alloc_base(size, align, end);
 	if (!base)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.7.4