[tip:x86/urgent] x86, memblock: Fix early_node_mem with big reserved region.

From: tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Oct 28 2010 - 19:40:48 EST


Commit-ID: 419db274bed4269f475a8e78cbe9c917192cfe8b
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/419db274bed4269f475a8e78cbe9c917192cfe8b
Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:50:17 -0700
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:52:36 -0700

x86, memblock: Fix early_node_mem with big reserved region.

Xen can reserve huge amounts of memory for pre-ballooning, but that
still shows as RAM in the e820 memory map. early_node_mem could not
find range because of start/end adjusting, and will go through the
fallback path. However, the fallback patch is still using
memblock_x86_find_range_node(), and it is partially top-down because
it go through active_range entries from low to high.

Let's use memblock_find_in_range instead memblock_x86_find_range_node.
So get real top down in fallback path.

We may still need to make memblock_x86_find_range_node to do overall
top_down work.

Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <4CC9A9C9.8020700@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c | 7 ++-----
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c
index 60f4985..7ffc9b7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c
@@ -178,11 +178,8 @@ static void * __init early_node_mem(int nodeid, unsigned long start,

/* extend the search scope */
end = max_pfn_mapped << PAGE_SHIFT;
- if (end > (MAX_DMA32_PFN<<PAGE_SHIFT))
- start = MAX_DMA32_PFN<<PAGE_SHIFT;
- else
- start = MAX_DMA_PFN<<PAGE_SHIFT;
- mem = memblock_x86_find_in_range_node(nodeid, start, end, size, align);
+ start = MAX_DMA_PFN << PAGE_SHIFT;
+ mem = memblock_find_in_range(start, end, size, align);
if (mem != MEMBLOCK_ERROR)
return __va(mem);

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