sparc64: mem boot option correction

The "mem" boot option can result in many unexpected consequences. This patch
attempts to prevent boot hangs which have been experienced on T4-4 and T5-8.
Basically the boot loader allocates vmlinuz and initrd higher in available
OBP physical memory. For example, on a 2Tb T5-8 it isn't possible to boot
with mem=20G.

The patch utilizes memblock to avoid reserved regions and trim memory which
is only free. Other improvements are possible for a multi-node machine.

This is a snippet of the boot log with mem=20G on T5-8 with the patch applied:
MEMBLOCK configuration:	<- before memory reduction
 memory size = 0x1ffad6ce000 reserved size = 0xa1adf44
 memory.cnt  = 0xb
 memory[0x0]    [0x00000030400000-0x00003fdde47fff], 0x3fada48000 bytes
 memory[0x1]    [0x00003fdde4e000-0x00003fdde4ffff], 0x2000 bytes
 memory[0x2]    [0x00080000000000-0x00083fffffffff], 0x4000000000 bytes
 memory[0x3]    [0x00100000000000-0x00103fffffffff], 0x4000000000 bytes
 memory[0x4]    [0x00180000000000-0x00183fffffffff], 0x4000000000 bytes
 memory[0x5]    [0x00200000000000-0x00203fffffffff], 0x4000000000 bytes
 memory[0x6]    [0x00280000000000-0x00283fffffffff], 0x4000000000 bytes
 memory[0x7]    [0x00300000000000-0x00303fffffffff], 0x4000000000 bytes
 memory[0x8]    [0x00380000000000-0x00383fffc71fff], 0x3fffc72000 bytes
 memory[0x9]    [0x00383fffc92000-0x00383fffca1fff], 0x10000 bytes
 memory[0xa]    [0x00383fffcb4000-0x00383fffcb5fff], 0x2000 bytes
 reserved.cnt  = 0x2
 reserved[0x0]  [0x00380000000000-0x0038000117e7f8], 0x117e7f9 bytes
 reserved[0x1]  [0x00380004000000-0x0038000d02f74a], 0x902f74b bytes
...
MEMBLOCK configuration:	<- after reduction of memory
 memory size = 0x50a1adf44 reserved size = 0xa1adf44
 memory.cnt  = 0x4
 memory[0x0]    [0x00380000000000-0x0038000117e7f8], 0x117e7f9 bytes
 memory[0x1]    [0x00380004000000-0x0038050d01d74a], 0x50901d74b bytes
 memory[0x2]    [0x00383fffc92000-0x00383fffca1fff], 0x10000 bytes
 memory[0x3]    [0x00383fffcb4000-0x00383fffcb5fff], 0x2000 bytes
 reserved.cnt  = 0x2
 reserved[0x0]  [0x00380000000000-0x0038000117e7f8], 0x117e7f9 bytes
 reserved[0x1]  [0x00380004000000-0x0038000d02f74a], 0x902f74b bytes
...
Early memory node ranges
  node   7: [mem 0x380000000000-0x38000117dfff]
  node   7: [mem 0x380004000000-0x380f0d01bfff]
  node   7: [mem 0x383fffc92000-0x383fffca1fff]
  node   7: [mem 0x383fffcb4000-0x383fffcb5fff]
Could not find start_pfn for node 0
Could not find start_pfn for node 1
Could not find start_pfn for node 2
Could not find start_pfn for node 3
Could not find start_pfn for node 4
Could not find start_pfn for node 5
Could not find start_pfn for node 6
.

The patch was tested on T4-1, T5-8 and Jalap?no.

Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/setup_64.c
index 1c7bfdf83b66..e629b8377587 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -141,21 +141,9 @@ static void __init boot_flags_init(char *commands)
 				process_switch(*commands++);
 			continue;
 		}
-		if (!strncmp(commands, "mem=", 4)) {
-			/*
-			 * "mem=XXX[kKmM]" overrides the PROM-reported
-			 * memory size.
-			 */
-			cmdline_memory_size = simple_strtoul(commands + 4,
-							     &commands, 0);
-			if (*commands == 'K' || *commands == 'k') {
-				cmdline_memory_size <<= 10;
-				commands++;
-			} else if (*commands=='M' || *commands=='m') {
-				cmdline_memory_size <<= 20;
-				commands++;
-			}
-		}
+		if (!strncmp(commands, "mem=", 4))
+			cmdline_memory_size = memparse(commands + 4, &commands);
+
 		while (*commands && *commands != ' ')
 			commands++;
 	}