linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 063/217] of: alloc anywhere from memblock if range not specified

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Message-ID: <lsq.1461711741.725463054@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 01:02:21 +0200
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Vinayak Menon" <vinmenon@...eaurora.org>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh@...nel.org>,
	"Marek Szyprowski" <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 063/217] of: alloc anywhere from memblock if range
 not specified

3.16.35-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

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: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 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_re
 	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;