memblock: Introduce default allocation limit and use it to replace explicit ones

This introduce memblock.current_limit which is used to limit allocations
from memblock_alloc() or memblock_alloc_base(..., MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE).

The old MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE changes value from 0 to ~(u64)0 and can still
be used with memblock_alloc_base() to allocate really anywhere.

It is -no-longer- cropped to MEMBLOCK_REAL_LIMIT which disappears.

Note to archs: I'm leaving the default limit to MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE. I
strongly recommend that you ensure that you set an appropriate limit
during boot in order to guarantee that an memblock_alloc() at any time
results in something that is accessible with a simple __va().

The reason is that a subsequent patch will introduce the ability for
the array to resize itself by reallocating itself. The MEMBLOCK core will
honor the current limit when performing those allocations.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This commit is contained in:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-06 15:39:01 -07:00
parent 27f574c223
commit e63075a3c9
14 changed files with 63 additions and 53 deletions

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@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/memblock.h>
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include <asm/prom.h>
@@ -212,5 +213,5 @@ void __init adjust_total_lowmem(void)
pr_cont("%lu Mb, residual: %dMb\n", tlbcam_sz(tlbcam_index - 1) >> 20,
(unsigned int)((total_lowmem - __max_low_memory) >> 20));
__initial_memory_limit_addr = memstart_addr + __max_low_memory;
memblock_set_current_limit(memstart_addr + __max_low_memory);
}