[PATCH] arm: omap4: Fix omap_barriers_init for generic ioremap changes

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 12:12:31 EST 2012


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> +phys_addr_t arm_memblock_steal(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align)
> +{
> +       phys_addr_t phys;
> +
> +       if (!arm_memblock_steal_permitted)
> +               panic("arm_memblock_steal used in an unsafe manner\n");
> +
> +       phys = memblock_alloc(size, align);
> +       memblock_free(phys, size);
> +       memblock_remove(phys, size);
> +
> +       return phys;
> +}

Excellent! I think I suggested a function like that at some point.

But I wonder about the 'align' argument. I think most people just
copy-pasted SZ_1M, although I think originally you suggested SZ_2M,
maybe it would make sense to align 'align' to SZ_1M, or set SZ_1M if
it's 0 for convenience.

Also, what about people that need memblock_alloc_base? AFAIK OMAP 3
secure ram needs to be below certain area (I wonder why the current
code is not handling that).

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras



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