Commit 918fe8d6 authored Jul 06, 2010 by Benjamin Herrenschmidt

memblock: Make memblock_alloc_try_nid() fallback to MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE



memblock_alloc_nid() used to fallback to allocating anywhere by using
memblock_alloc() as a fallback.

However, some of my previous patches limit memblock_alloc() to the region
covered by MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE which is not quite what we want
for memblock_alloc_try_nid().

So we fix it by explicitely using MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE.

Not that so far only sparc uses memblock_alloc_nid() and it hasn't been updated
to clamp the accessible zone yet. Thus the temporary "breakage" should have
no effect.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

parent 9d1e2492

mm/memblock.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ phys_addr_t __init memblock_alloc_try_nid(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align, i

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