Re: [PATCH] of: alloc anywhere from memblock if range not specified

vinayak menon
2016-02-22T13:48:17Z

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Marek Szyprowski
<m.szyprowski-Sze3O3UU22JBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 2016-02-01 15:44, Vinayak Menon wrote:
>>
>> early_init_dt_alloc_reserved_memory_arch passes end as 0 to
>> __memblock_alloc_base, when limits are not specified. But
>> __memblock_alloc_base takes end value of 0 as MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE
>> and limits the end to memblock.current_limit. This results in regions
>> never being placed in HIGHMEM area, for e.g. CMA.
>> Let __memblock_alloc_base allocate from anywhere in memory if limits are
>> not specified.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
>
>
> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski-Sze3O3UU22JBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
>
> You may need to resend it lkml to let someone to pick it for merging.
> devicetree ml is mainly for discussing the bindings.
>

Thanks. I will resend it to lkml.