Commit 15fb0972 authored Jul 12, 2011 by Tejun Heo Committed by H. Peter Anvin Jul 13, 2011

memblock: Use MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE instead of ANYWHERE in memblock_alloc_try_nid()



After node affine allocation fails, memblock_alloc_try_nid() calls
memblock_alloc_base() with @max_addr set to MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE.
This is inconsistent with memblock_alloc() and what the function's
sole user - sparc/mm/init_64 - expects, although it doesn't make any
difference as sparc64 doesn't have highmem and ACCESSIBLE equals
ANYWHERE.

This patch makes memblock_alloc_try_nid() use ACCESSIBLE instead of
ANYWHERE.  This isn't complete as node affine allocation doesn't
consider memblock.current_limit.  It will be handled with future
changes.

This patch doesn't introduce any behavior difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310457490-3356-4-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org


Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

parent 53348f27

mm/memblock.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ phys_addr_t __init memblock_alloc_try_nid(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align, i

		if (res)
		return res;
		return memblock_alloc_base(size, align, MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE);
		return memblock_alloc_base(size, align, MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE);
		}