From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] ARM: OMAP2+: Round of the carve out memory requested to section_size Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 14:05:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20121008210542.GF13011@atomide.com> References: <1347434053-11431-1-git-send-email-r.sricharan@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mho-04-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.74]:12622 "EHLO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750883Ab2JHVFr (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2012 17:05:47 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: "Shilimkar, Santosh" Cc: R Sricharan , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org * Shilimkar, Santosh [120927 23:35]: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:44 PM, R Sricharan wrote: > > memblock_steal tries to reserve physical memory during boot. > > When the requested size is not aligned on the section size > > then, the remaining memory available for lowmem becomes > > unaligned on the section boundary. There is a issue with this, > > which is discussed in the thread below. > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/28/112 > > > > The final conclusion from the thread seems to > > be align the memblock_steal calls on the SECTION boundary. > > The issue comes out when LPAE is enabled, where the > > section size is 2MB. > > > > Boot tested this on OMAP5 evm with and without LPAE. > > > > Signed-off-by: R Sricharan > > --- > > [V2] Corrected the subject and added one more description line. > > > Looks good. > Acked-by : Santosh Shilimkar > > Tony, > Can you take this into your next "fixes-noncritical" queue please ? Applying it now into fixes for the -rc cycle. Regards, Tony