Re: Bug 205201 - Booting halts if Dawicontrol DC-2976 UW SCSI board installed, unless RAM size limited to 3500M

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On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 05:40:26PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 12:26:38PM +0100, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> > Hello Christoph,
> >
> > The PCI TV card works with your patch! I was able to patch your Git kernel 
> > with the patch above.
> >
> > I haven't found any error messages in the dmesg yet.
> 
> Thanks.  Unfortunately this is a bit of a hack as we need to set
> the mask based on runtime information like the magic FSL PCIe window.
> Let me try to draft something better up, and thanks already for testing
> this one!

Maybe we'll simply force bottom up allocation before calling
swiotlb_init()? Anyway, it's the last memblock allocation.


diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index 62f74b1b33bd..771e6cf7e2b9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -286,14 +286,15 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 	/*
 	 * book3s is limited to 16 page sizes due to encoding this in
 	 * a 4-bit field for slices.
 	 */
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(MMU_PAGE_COUNT > 16);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
+	memblock_set_bottom_up(true);
 	swiotlb_init(0);
 #endif
 
 	high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE);
 	set_max_mapnr(max_pfn);
 	memblock_free_all();
 
 


-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.




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