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-rw-r--r--mm/memory_hotplug.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 005eab3411e5..d6f813cc12c1 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -105,7 +105,13 @@ static struct resource *register_memory_resource(u64 start, u64 size)
unsigned long flags = IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | IORESOURCE_BUSY;
char *resource_name = "System RAM";
- if (start + size > max_mem_size)
+ /*
+ * Make sure value parsed from 'mem=' only restricts memory adding
+ * while booting, so that memory hotplug won't be impacted. Please
+ * refer to document of 'mem=' in kernel-parameters.txt for more
+ * details.
+ */
+ if (start + size > max_mem_size && system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING)
return ERR_PTR(-E2BIG);
/*