Re: [PATCH] memblock: Add limit checking to memblock_virt_alloc

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:04:25 -0800 Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In original bootmem wrapper for memblock, we have limit checking.
> 
> Add it to memblock_virt_alloc, to address arm and x86 booting crash.
> 
> ...
>
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memblock.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -1077,6 +1077,9 @@ static void * __init memblock_virt_alloc
>  	if (!align)
>  		align = SMP_CACHE_BYTES;
>  
> +	if (max_addr > memblock.current_limit)
> +		max_addr = memblock.current_limit;
> +
>  again:
>  	alloc = memblock_find_in_range_node(size, align, min_addr, max_addr,
>  					    nid);

Thanks.

Kevin, Olof and Konrad (at least) have been hitting this.  It would be
great to get some tested-by's, please?

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