From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: powerpc: always trim to numa memory to lmb_end_of_DRAM
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:37:04 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trim-iommu-t2@bga.com> (raw)
numa_enforce_memory_limit tried to be smart and only call lmb_end_of_DRAM
when a memory limit was set via mem= on the command line. However,
the early boot code will also limit memory added to the lmb system
when iommu=off is specified. When this happens, the page allocator
is given pages not in the linear mapping and this results in a fatal
data reference to the unmapped page.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
--
X-Patchwork-ID: 19577
Changelog edited. Patch compiled on next-20081017
A previous version of this patch, id 11774, also looked if if iommu=off
was specified, but it was requested that the check just be removed.
http://oldpatchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=11774
---
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
index cf4bffb..590406c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
@@ -472,12 +472,10 @@ static unsigned long __init numa_enforce_memory_limit(unsigned long start,
/*
* We use lmb_end_of_DRAM() in here instead of memory_limit because
* we've already adjusted it for the limit and it takes care of
- * having memory holes below the limit.
+ * having memory holes below the limit. Also, in the case of
+ * iommu_is_off, memory_limit is not set but is implicitly enforced.
*/
- if (! memory_limit)
- return size;
-
if (start + size <= lmb_end_of_DRAM())
return size;
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