[PATCH v2 3/4] mm: cma: Ensure that reservations never cross the low/high mem boundary

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Sun Oct 26 05:43:52 PDT 2014


On Friday 24 October 2014 18:26:58 Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24 2014, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Commit 95b0e655f914 ("ARM: mm: don't limit default CMA region only to
> > low memory") extended CMA memory reservation to allow usage of high
> > memory. It relied on commit f7426b983a6a ("mm: cma: adjust address limit
> > to avoid hitting low/high memory boundary") to ensure that the reserved
> > block never crossed the low/high memory boundary. While the
> > implementation correctly lowered the limit, it failed to consider the
> > case where the base..limit range crossed the low/high memory boundary
> > with enough space on each side to reserve the requested size on either
> > low or high memory.
> > 
> > Rework the base and limit adjustment to fix the problem. The function
> > now starts by rejecting the reservation altogether for fixed
> > reservations that cross the boundary, tries to reserve from high memory
> > first and then falls back to low memory.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart
> > <laurent.pinchart+renesas at ideasonboard.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 at mina86.com>

Thank you. Can we get this series merged in v3.18-rc ?

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart




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