[PATCH v2] ARM: memblock limit must be pmd-aligned

From: Doug Berger
Date: Tue Jun 27 2017 - 13:34:07 EST


The pmd containing memblock_limit is cleared by prepare_page_table()
which creates the opportunity for early_alloc() to allocate unmapped
memory if memblock_limit is not pmd aligned causing a boot-time hang.

Commit 965278dcb8ab ("ARM: 8356/1: mm: handle non-pmd-aligned end of RAM")
attempted to resolve this problem, but there is a path through the
adjust_lowmem_bounds() routine where if all memory regions start and
end on pmd-aligned addresses the memblock_limit will be set to
arm_lowmem_limit.

Since arm_lowmem_limit can be affected by the vmalloc early parameter,
the value of arm_lowmem_limit may not be pmd-aligned. This commit
corrects this oversight such that memblock_limit is always rounded
down to pmd-alignment.

Fixes: 965278dcb8ab ("ARM: 8356/1: mm: handle non-pmd-aligned end of RAM")
Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
---
Changes for v2:
- Cleaner equivalent implementation suggested by Mark Rutland
- Revised description to better capture the history

arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
index 31af3cb59a60..e46a6a446cdd 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1218,15 +1218,15 @@ void __init adjust_lowmem_bounds(void)

high_memory = __va(arm_lowmem_limit - 1) + 1;

+ if (!memblock_limit)
+ memblock_limit = arm_lowmem_limit;
+
/*
* Round the memblock limit down to a pmd size. This
* helps to ensure that we will allocate memory from the
* last full pmd, which should be mapped.
*/
- if (memblock_limit)
- memblock_limit = round_down(memblock_limit, PMD_SIZE);
- if (!memblock_limit)
- memblock_limit = arm_lowmem_limit;
+ memblock_limit = round_down(memblock_limit, PMD_SIZE);

if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HIGHMEM) || cache_is_vipt_aliasing()) {
if (memblock_end_of_DRAM() > arm_lowmem_limit) {
--
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