According to Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, the kernel command-line parameter memmap= means "Force usage of a specific region of memory", but when add "memmap=3G@64M" to the command-line, kernel boot hangs in sparse_init(). In order to support memmap=limit@base, refactor the function early_parse_memmap() and then use memblock_mem_range_remove_map() to limit the memory region. With this patch, when add "memmap=3G@64M" to the command-line, the kernel boots successfully, we can see the following messages: [ 0.000000] Memory limited to 64MB-3136MB ... [ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000004000000-0x000000000effffff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000090200000-0x00000000ffffffff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000120000000-0x00000001653fffff] ... [ 0.000000] Memory: 3070816K/3147776K available (...) When add "memmap=128M@64M nr_cpus=1 init 3" to the command-line, the kernel also boots successfully, we can see the following messages: [ 0.000000] Memory limited to 64MB-192MB ... [ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000004000000-0x000000000c1fffff] ... [ 0.000000] Memory: 95312K/133120K available (...) After login, the output of free command is consistent with the above log. By the way, this commit only supports memmap=limit@base format, the other formats such as memmap=limit#base, memmap=limit$base and memmap=limit!base can be added if they are necessary in the future. Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 42 +++++++++--------------------------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c index 6b6d718..e3b1f2e 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c @@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ static void __init bootmem_init(void) static int usermem __initdata; static phys_addr_t memory_limit; +static phys_addr_t memory_base; static int __init early_parse_mem(char *p) { @@ -355,42 +356,17 @@ early_param("mem", early_parse_mem); static int __init early_parse_memmap(char *p) { - char *oldp; - u64 start_at, mem_size; - if (!p) - return -EINVAL; + return 1; - if (!strncmp(p, "exactmap", 8)) { - pr_err("\"memmap=exactmap\" invalid on MIPS\n"); - return 0; - } + memory_limit = memparse(p, &p) & PAGE_MASK; + if (*p == '@') + memory_base = memparse(p + 1, &p) & PAGE_MASK; - oldp = p; - mem_size = memparse(p, &p); - if (p == oldp) - return -EINVAL; - - if (*p == '@') { - start_at = memparse(p+1, &p); - memblock_add(start_at, mem_size); - } else if (*p == '#') { - pr_err("\"memmap=nn#ss\" (force ACPI data) invalid on MIPS\n"); - return -EINVAL; - } else if (*p == '$') { - start_at = memparse(p+1, &p); - memblock_add(start_at, mem_size); - memblock_reserve(start_at, mem_size); - } else { - pr_err("\"memmap\" invalid format!\n"); - return -EINVAL; - } + pr_notice("Memory limited to %lldMB-%lldMB\n", + memory_base >> 20, (memory_base + memory_limit) >> 20); - if (*p == '\0') { - usermem = 1; - return 0; - } else - return -EINVAL; + return 0; } early_param("memmap", early_parse_memmap); @@ -667,7 +643,7 @@ static void __init arch_mem_init(char **cmdline_p) __pa_symbol(&__nosave_end) - __pa_symbol(&__nosave_begin)); /* Limit the memory. */ - memblock_enforce_memory_limit(memory_limit); + memblock_mem_range_remove_map(memory_base, memory_limit); memblock_allow_resize(); early_memtest(PFN_PHYS(ARCH_PFN_OFFSET), PFN_PHYS(max_low_pfn)); -- 2.1.0