From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grygorii.strashko@ti.com (Grygorii Strashko) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:18:18 +0300 Subject: ARM: issue with memory reservation from DT Message-ID: <543EAC5A.6050209@ti.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi All, I did some experiments with memory reservation from DT and got boot failure. Input data: - Platform Keystone 2 K2HK - LPAE enabled - RAM 1G: memory { reg = <0x8 0x00000000 0x0 0x40000000>; }; - memory reservation 512M: reserved-memory { #address-cells = <2>; #size-cells = <2>; ranges; dspsmem: dspsmem at 20000000 { reg = <0x8 0x20000000 0x0 0x20000000>; no-map; }; }; So, total memory available for Kernel should be 512M, below is memory state for the case when memory is reserved from u-boot: [ 0.000000] Memory: 486200K/524288K available (5085K kernel code, 265K rwdata, 1776K rodata, 296K init, 178K bss, 38088K reserved, 0K highmem) [ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout: [ 0.000000] vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB) [ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xffc00000 - 0xffe00000 (2048 kB) [ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xff000000 ( 488 MB) [ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xe0000000 ( 512 MB) [ 0.000000] pkmap : 0xbfe00000 - 0xc0000000 ( 2 MB) [ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xbfe00000 ( 14 MB) [ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc06bb8a4 (6863 kB) [ 0.000000] .init : 0xc06bc000 - 0xc0706000 ( 296 kB) [ 0.000000] .data : 0xc0706000 - 0xc07485fc ( 266 kB) [ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc07485fc - 0xc07751e0 ( 179 kB) Why: - I'm trying to reserve memory from kernel instead of u-boot. Fast ;( investigation results: 1) The issue happens only if no-map; is used. In this case FDT code will call memblock_remove() instead of memblock_reserve(). 2) ARM limits are set wrongly from sanity_check_meminfo(): [ 0.000000] ======= memblock_limit=0x000000082f800000 arm_lowmem_limit=0x000000082f800000 vmalloc_limit=ef800000 high_memory=0x000000082f800000 instead of [ 0.000000] ======= memblock_limit=0x0000000820000000 arm_lowmem_limit=0x0000000820000000 vmalloc_limit=e0000000 high_memory=0x000000082f800000 3) If I apply below change - I can boot: diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c index c031063..85ad92b 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c @@ -917,8 +917,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) early_paging_init(mdesc, lookup_processor_type(read_cpuid_id())); setup_dma_zone(mdesc); - sanity_check_meminfo(); arm_memblock_init(mdesc); + sanity_check_meminfo(); paging_init(mdesc); request_standard_resources(mdesc); ^^ not sure if it totally safe, because dma_contiguous_reserve(arm_dma_limit); is called from inside arm_memblock_init() and it does bootmem allocations. Sort Summary: It looks like all static memory reservation and memory stealing's (calling of memblock_remove()) have to be done before any other operations and before calculating ARM memory limits. Thank you for any comments. Regards, -grygorii