From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 RESEND 08/17] ARM: LPAE: use phys_addr_t in free_memmap()
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:22:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120924152220.GE26454@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506077BE.6000600@ti.com>
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:09:50AM -0400, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:
> On 9/24/2012 9:41 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 02:29:42PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>> This function also calls free_bootmem() which takes unsigned long. Are
>>> patches sent separately for this or we just ignore holes in memmap?
>>> There are other calls to free_bootmem() or reserve_bootmem(), do they
>>> just work with the high phys addresses?
>>
>> Bootmem only deals with physical addresses which fit within the size
>> of an 'unsigned long'. Unfortunately, the bootmem API is a mess of
>> 'unsigned long' physical addresses and PFNs.
>>
>> Years ago there was a patch to make it use only PFNs but other changes
>> resulted in that patch being thrown away.
>>
>
> A separate patch has been posted for bootmem (see [1]).
>
> Tejun suggested that we'd be better off moving entirely to memblock
> instead (see [2]).
Yes we should, but that's not as easy as typing a few words in an email.
When I tried it when I integrated memblock into our boot sequence, I
found that sparsemem wouldn't work without bootmem being in place.
It may be that things have now moved on, and we can just eliminate
bootmem once and for all, but that's something I've not looked at for
quite some time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-24 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-21 15:55 [PATCH v3 RESEND 00/17] LPAE fixes and extensions for Keystone Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-21 15:55 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 01/17] ARM: add mechanism for late code patching Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-22 15:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-09-22 21:41 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 12:06 ` Dave Martin
2012-09-24 14:49 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 15:54 ` Dave Martin
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 02/17] ARM: add self test for runtime patch mechanism Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 03/17] ARM: use late patch framework for phys-virt patching Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 04/17] ARM: LPAE: use phys_addr_t on virt <--> phys conversion Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 13:09 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-24 13:57 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 05/17] ARM: LPAE: support 64-bit virt_to_phys patching Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-22 15:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-09-24 15:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-24 15:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-09-24 20:59 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 21:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-09-24 21:52 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-24 22:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-09-24 22:40 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-24 22:53 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 23:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-09-24 23:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-24 22:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-09-25 12:55 ` Dave Martin
2012-09-25 13:53 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-24 21:53 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 22:06 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-24 16:31 ` Dave Martin
2012-09-24 16:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 06/17] ARM: LPAE: use signed arithmetic for mask definitions Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 13:09 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-24 13:54 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 07/17] ARM: LPAE: use phys_addr_t in alloc_init_pud() Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 13:10 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 08/17] ARM: LPAE: use phys_addr_t in free_memmap() Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 13:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-24 13:41 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-24 15:09 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 15:22 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2012-09-24 16:41 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 16:51 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-24 17:06 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 17:14 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-25 13:08 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-25 13:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-24 16:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-24 17:03 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 09/17] ARM: LPAE: use phys_addr_t for initrd location and size Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 13:30 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-24 13:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-09-24 14:00 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 10/17] ARM: LPAE: use phys_addr_t in switch_mm() Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 14:05 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-24 14:32 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 11/17] ARM: LPAE: use 64-bit accessors for TTBR registers Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 14:10 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 12/17] ARM: LPAE: define ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT for bootmem Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 14:16 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 13/17] ARM: LPAE: factor out T1SZ and TTBR1 computations Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 14:45 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-24 14:58 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 14/17] ARM: LPAE: accomodate >32-bit addresses for page table base Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 15:17 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 15/17] ARM: mm: use physical addresses in highmem sanity checks Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-24 15:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 16/17] ARM: mm: cleanup checks for membank overlap with vmalloc area Cyril Chemparathy
2012-09-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v3 RESEND 17/17] ARM: mm: clean up membank size limit checks Cyril Chemparathy
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