ARM: Add arm_memblock_steal() to allocate memory away from the kernel

Several platforms are now using the memblock_alloc+memblock_free+
memblock_remove trick to obtain memory which won't be mapped in the
kernel's page tables.  Most platforms do this (correctly) in the
->reserve callback.  However, OMAP has started to call these functions
outside of this callback, and this is extremely unsafe - memory will
not be unmapped, and could well be given out after memblock is no
longer responsible for its management.

So, provide arm_memblock_steal() to perform this function, and ensure
that it panic()s if it is used inappropriately.  Convert everyone
over, including OMAP.

As a result, OMAP with OMAP4_ERRATA_I688 enabled will panic on boot
with this change.  Mark this option as BROKEN and make it depend on
BROKEN.  OMAP needs to be fixed, or 137d105d50 (ARM: OMAP4: Fix
errata i688 with MPU interconnect barriers.) reverted until such
time it can be fixed correctly.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap4-common.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap4-common.c
index bc16c818c6b7..40a8fbc07e4b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap4-common.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap4-common.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <asm/hardware/gic.h>
 #include <asm/hardware/cache-l2x0.h>
 #include <asm/mach/map.h>
+#include <asm/memblock.h>
 
 #include <plat/irqs.h>
 #include <plat/sram.h>
@@ -61,13 +62,8 @@ static int __init omap_barriers_init(void)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
 	size = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE, SZ_1M);
-	paddr = memblock_alloc(size, SZ_1M);
-	if (!paddr) {
-		pr_err("%s: failed to reserve 4 Kbytes\n", __func__);
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-	memblock_free(paddr, size);
-	memblock_remove(paddr, size);
+	paddr = arm_memblock_steal(size, SZ_1M);
+
 	dram_io_desc[0].virtual = OMAP4_DRAM_BARRIER_VA;
 	dram_io_desc[0].pfn = __phys_to_pfn(paddr);
 	dram_io_desc[0].length = size;