[PATCH] ARM: allow, but warn, when issuing ioremap() on RAM

[Felipe Contreras]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 04:52:36AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> At the time 'fixup' is called, 'meminfo' is empty; the tags haven't
>> been parsed. So my solution is to move the memblock_add() after
>> 'reserve', and pass 'meminfo' as an argument:
>
> Here's a different approach which will work.  This pushes ARM further
> towards using memblock for everything relating to memory init (although
> we still have the old membank stuff around.)
>
> The advantage with this is that memblock is now used as the basis for
> determining where memory is, setting up the maps, freeing memory into
> the pools, etc.
>
> What this also means is that this code in the ->reserve callback:
>
>        size = min(size, SZ_2M);
>        base = memblock_alloc(size, min(align, SZ_2M));
>        memblock_free(base, size);
>        memblock_remove(base, size);

Why align to SZ_2M both the start and end?

> will result in [base+size] being removed from the available memory,
> using highmem if available, if not from lowmem and removing it from
> the lowmem memory map - which is exactly the behaviour we want.

Makes sense to me.

>  arch/arm/mm/init.c |  160 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  arch/arm/mm/mmu.c  |   43 ++++++++------
>  mm/memblock.c      |    4 +
>  3 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)

This works fine:
Tested-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com>

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Felipe Contreras