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author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2010-07-06 15:39:01 -0700 |
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committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2010-08-05 12:56:07 +1000 |
commit | e63075a3c9377536d085bc013cd3fe6323162449 (patch) | |
tree | 28fde124dde6df867947882fc686d228502846df /arch/powerpc/mm/dma-noncoherent.c | |
parent | 27f574c223d2c09610058b3ec7a29582d63a3e06 (diff) | |
download | linux-e63075a3c9377536d085bc013cd3fe6323162449.tar.bz2 |
memblock: Introduce default allocation limit and use it to replace explicit ones
This introduce memblock.current_limit which is used to limit allocations
from memblock_alloc() or memblock_alloc_base(..., MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE).
The old MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE changes value from 0 to ~(u64)0 and can still
be used with memblock_alloc_base() to allocate really anywhere.
It is -no-longer- cropped to MEMBLOCK_REAL_LIMIT which disappears.
Note to archs: I'm leaving the default limit to MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE. I
strongly recommend that you ensure that you set an appropriate limit
during boot in order to guarantee that an memblock_alloc() at any time
results in something that is accessible with a simple __va().
The reason is that a subsequent patch will introduce the ability for
the array to resize itself by reallocating itself. The MEMBLOCK core will
honor the current limit when performing those allocations.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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