Re: [PATCH] of: alloc anywhere from memblock if range not specified

From	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] of: alloc anywhere from memblock if range not specified
Date	2016-03-04 00:00 +0100
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 07:15:44PM +0530, Vinayak Menon wrote:
> early_init_dt_alloc_reserved_memory_arch passes end as 0 to
> __memblock_alloc_base, when limits are not specified. But
> __memblock_alloc_base takes end value of 0 as MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE
> and limits the end to memblock.current_limit. This results in regions
> never being placed in HIGHMEM area, for e.g. CMA.
> Let __memblock_alloc_base allocate from anywhere in memory if limits are
> not specified.
> 
> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>

Applied and marked for stable.

Rob

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