memblock_alloc_nid() used to fallback to allocating anywhere by using memblock_alloc() as a fallback. However, some of my previous patches limit memblock_alloc() to the region covered by MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE which is not quite what we want for memblock_alloc_try_nid(). So we fix it by explicitely using MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE. Not that so far only sparc uses memblock_alloc_nid() and it hasn't been updated to clamp the accessible zone yet. Thus the temporary "breakage" should have no effect. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memblock.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c index 1802d97..9de5fcd 100644 --- a/mm/memblock.c +++ b/mm/memblock.c @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ phys_addr_t __init memblock_alloc_try_nid(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align, i if (res) return res; - return memblock_alloc(size, align); + return memblock_alloc_base(size, align, MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE); } -- 1.7.0.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>