Re: [PATCH v2] arm: improve non-section-aligned low memory mapping

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Wed May 06 2015 - 06:33:08 EST


On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 04:47:08PM +0800, Min-Hua Chen wrote:
> @@ -1384,6 +1351,15 @@ static void __init map_lowmem(void)
> create_mapping(&map);
> }
> }
> +
> + /*
> + * Find the first section-aligned memblock and set
> + * memblock_limit at it.
> + */
> + if (!section_memblock_limit && !(end & ~SECTION_MASK)) {
> + section_memblock_limit = end;
> + memblock_set_current_limit(section_memblock_limit);
> + }

I've suggested an alternative solution to this (which just means changing
the alignment of the memblock limit to 2x SECTION_SIZE).

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