* [PATCH] MIPS: mm: Add check for highmem before removing memory block
@ 2026-06-21 18:47 Kyle Hendry
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From: Kyle Hendry @ 2026-06-21 18:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas Bogendoerfer; +Cc: Kyle Hendry, linux-mips, linux-kernel
If a device has less physical memory than the highmem threshold
bootmem_init() doesn't set highstart_pfn. This results in highmem_init()
wrongly disabling the entire memory range if the cpu doesn't support
highmem. Add a check that highstart_pfn is non zero before removing the
highmem block.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Hendry <kylehendrydev@gmail.com>
---
arch/mips/mm/init.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/init.c b/arch/mips/mm/init.c
index 1c07ca84ee21..352718e43f69 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/init.c
@@ -426,10 +426,11 @@ static inline void __init highmem_init(void)
unsigned long tmp;
/*
- * If CPU cannot support HIGHMEM discard the memory above highstart_pfn
+ * If CPU cannot support HIGHMEM discard any memory above highstart_pfn
*/
if (cpu_has_dc_aliases) {
- memblock_remove(PFN_PHYS(highstart_pfn), -1);
+ if (highstart_pfn)
+ memblock_remove(PFN_PHYS(highstart_pfn), -1);
return;
}
--
2.43.0
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