Re: [PATCH v2] mips: switch to NO_BOOTMEM

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Hi Mike,

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 12:23:18PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> MIPS already has memblock support and all the memory is already registered
> with it.
> 
> This patch replaces bootmem memory reservations with memblock ones and
> removes the bootmem initialization.
> 
> Since memblock allocates memory in top-down mode, we ensure that memblock
> limit is max_low_pfn to prevent allocations from the high memory.
> 
> To have the exceptions base in the lower 512M of the physical memory, its
> allocation in arch/mips/kernel/traps.c::traps_init() is using bottom-up
> mode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
> * set memblock limit to max_low_pfn to avoid allocation attempts from high
> memory
> * use boottom-up mode for allocation of the exceptions base
> 
> Build tested with *_defconfig.
> Boot tested with qemu-system-mips64el for 32r6el, 64r6el and fuloong2e
> defconfigs.
> Boot tested with qemu-system-mipsel for malta defconfig.
> 
>  arch/mips/Kconfig                      |  1 +
>  arch/mips/kernel/setup.c               | 99 ++++++++--------------------------
>  arch/mips/kernel/traps.c               |  3 ++
>  arch/mips/loongson64/loongson-3/numa.c | 34 ++++++------
>  arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-memory.c       | 11 ++--
>  5 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-)

Thanks - applied to mips-next for 4.20.

Apologies for the delay, my son decided to be born a few weeks early &
scupper my plans :)

Paul




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