From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: memblock: set allocation limit for MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:08:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288116524.5506.1.camel@jazztop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101026105638.GA2092@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-26 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-25 10:48 [PATCH] ARM: memblock: set allocation limit for MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE Catalin Marinas
2010-10-25 15:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-10-25 22:55 ` Will Deacon
2010-10-26 10:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-10-26 18:08 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2010-10-26 19:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
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