Re: [PATCH] of: alloc anywhere from memblock if range not specified

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Mar 03 2016 - 17:52:48 EST


On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 07:15:44PM +0530, Vinayak Menon wrote:
> early_init_dt_alloc_reserved_memory_arch passes end as 0 to
> __memblock_alloc_base, when limits are not specified. But
> __memblock_alloc_base takes end value of 0 as MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE
> and limits the end to memblock.current_limit. This results in regions
> never being placed in HIGHMEM area, for e.g. CMA.
> Let __memblock_alloc_base allocate from anywhere in memory if limits are
> not specified.
>
> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied and marked for stable.

Rob