Re: [PATCH v2] mips: switch to NO_BOOTMEM

[Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 12:53:00PM -0700, Paul Burton wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 12:23:18PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > MIPS already has memblock support and all the memory is already registered
> > with it.
> > 
> > This patch replaces bootmem memory reservations with memblock ones and
> > removes the bootmem initialization.
> > 
> > Since memblock allocates memory in top-down mode, we ensure that memblock
> > limit is max_low_pfn to prevent allocations from the high memory.
> > 
> > To have the exceptions base in the lower 512M of the physical memory, its
> > allocation in arch/mips/kernel/traps.c::traps_init() is using bottom-up
> > mode.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > v2:
> > * set memblock limit to max_low_pfn to avoid allocation attempts from high
> > memory
> > * use boottom-up mode for allocation of the exceptions base
> > 
> > Build tested with *_defconfig.
> > Boot tested with qemu-system-mips64el for 32r6el, 64r6el and fuloong2e
> > defconfigs.
> > Boot tested with qemu-system-mipsel for malta defconfig.
> > 
> >  arch/mips/Kconfig                      |  1 +
> >  arch/mips/kernel/setup.c               | 99 ++++++++--------------------------
> >  arch/mips/kernel/traps.c               |  3 ++
> >  arch/mips/loongson64/loongson-3/numa.c | 34 ++++++------
> >  arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-memory.c       | 11 ++--
> >  5 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-)
> 
> Thanks - applied to mips-next for 4.20.
> 
> Apologies for the delay, my son decided to be born a few weeks early &
> scupper my plans :)

Congratulations! :)
 
> Paul
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.