[PATCH] ARM: memblock: set allocation limit for MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Oct 26 14:08:43 EDT 2010
Russell,
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:56 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:55:36PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Right. I could also move this call out of sanity_check_meminfo
> > and into arm_memblock_init now that we don't need lowmem_end_addr
> > to be initialised. If you're happy with me making that change then
> > I'll post a revised version to the patch system.
>
> It looks like we're doing a few things out of order. Yes, it makes
> sense to move that initialization to arm_memblock_init(), but as we're
> not running sanity_check_meminfo(), it could mean there's problems
> with out of order membanks and similar.
>
We could move the arm_memblock_init() call into paging_init, immediately
after the call to sanity_check_meminfo. I think everything should be
safe then.
> I'll look at that when I'm back.
Great, thanks.
Will
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