From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: santosh.shilimkar@ti.com (Santosh Shilimkar) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:37:43 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 3/6] ARM: mm: Drop the lowmem watermark check from virt_addr_valid() In-Reply-To: <1384457866-16135-1-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> References: <1384457866-16135-1-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Message-ID: <1384457866-16135-4-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Slab allocator can allocate memory beyond the lowmem watermark which can lead to false failure of virt_addr_valid(). So drop the check. The issue was seen with percpu_alloc() in KVM code which was allocating memory beyond lowmem watermark. Am not completly sure whether this is the right fix and if it could impact any other user of virt_addr_valid(). Without this fix as pointed out the KVM init was failing in my testing. Cc: Christoffer Dall Cc: Marc Zyngier Cc: Russell King Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar --- arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h index 4dd2145..412da47 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h @@ -343,8 +343,7 @@ static inline __deprecated void *bus_to_virt(unsigned long x) #define ARCH_PFN_OFFSET PHYS_PFN_OFFSET #define virt_to_page(kaddr) pfn_to_page(__pa(kaddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT) -#define virt_addr_valid(kaddr) ((unsigned long)(kaddr) >= PAGE_OFFSET && (unsigned long)(kaddr) < (unsigned long)high_memory) - +#define virt_addr_valid(kaddr) ((unsigned long)(kaddr) >= PAGE_OFFSET) #endif #include -- 1.7.9.5