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Russell King
716a3dc200 ARM: Add arm_memblock_steal() to allocate memory away from the kernel
Several platforms are now using the memblock_alloc+memblock_free+
memblock_remove trick to obtain memory which won't be mapped in the
kernel's page tables.  Most platforms do this (correctly) in the
->reserve callback.  However, OMAP has started to call these functions
outside of this callback, and this is extremely unsafe - memory will
not be unmapped, and could well be given out after memblock is no
longer responsible for its management.

So, provide arm_memblock_steal() to perform this function, and ensure
that it panic()s if it is used inappropriately.  Convert everyone
over, including OMAP.

As a result, OMAP with OMAP4_ERRATA_I688 enabled will panic on boot
with this change.  Mark this option as BROKEN and make it depend on
BROKEN.  OMAP needs to be fixed, or 137d105d50 (ARM: OMAP4: Fix
errata i688 with MPU interconnect barriers.) reverted until such
time it can be fixed correctly.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-13 15:02:35 +00:00
Russell King
4e929d2bcf ARM: fix memblock breakage
Will says:
| Commit e63075a3 removed the explicit MEMBLOCK_REAL_LIMIT #define
| and introduced the requirement that arch code calls
| memblock_set_current_limit to ensure that the __va macro can
| be used on physical addresses returned from memblock_alloc.

Unfortunately, ARM was missed out of this change.  Fix this.

Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-27 21:41:39 +01:00
Russell King
8d717a52d1 ARM: Convert platform reservations to use LMB rather than bootmem
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-07-27 08:48:23 +01:00
Russell King
2778f62056 ARM: initial LMB trial
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-07-27 08:48:22 +01:00