According to Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, the kernel command-line parameter mem= means "Force usage of a specific amount of memory", but when add "mem=3G" to the command-line, kernel boot hangs in sparse_init(). This commit is similar with the implementation of the other archs such as arm64, powerpc and riscv, refactor the function early_parse_mem() and then use memblock_enforce_memory_limit() to limit the memory size. With this patch, when add "mem=3G" to the command-line, the kernel boots successfully, we can see the following messages: [ 0.000000] Memory limited to 3072MB ... [ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x000000000effffff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000090200000-0x00000000ffffffff] [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000120000000-0x00000001613fffff] ... [ 0.000000] Memory: 3005280K/3145728K available (...) After login, the output of free command is consistent with the above log. Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 26 +++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c index f979adf..6b6d718 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c @@ -339,27 +339,15 @@ static void __init bootmem_init(void) #endif /* CONFIG_SGI_IP27 */ static int usermem __initdata; +static phys_addr_t memory_limit; static int __init early_parse_mem(char *p) { - phys_addr_t start, size; - - /* - * If a user specifies memory size, we - * blow away any automatically generated - * size. - */ - if (usermem == 0) { - usermem = 1; - memblock_remove(memblock_start_of_DRAM(), - memblock_end_of_DRAM() - memblock_start_of_DRAM()); - } - start = 0; - size = memparse(p, &p); - if (*p == '@') - start = memparse(p + 1, &p); + if (!p) + return 1; - memblock_add(start, size); + memory_limit = memparse(p, &p) & PAGE_MASK; + pr_notice("Memory limited to %lldMB\n", memory_limit >> 20); return 0; } @@ -678,6 +666,10 @@ static void __init arch_mem_init(char **cmdline_p) memblock_reserve(__pa_symbol(&__nosave_begin), __pa_symbol(&__nosave_end) - __pa_symbol(&__nosave_begin)); + /* Limit the memory. */ + memblock_enforce_memory_limit(memory_limit); + memblock_allow_resize(); + early_memtest(PFN_PHYS(ARCH_PFN_OFFSET), PFN_PHYS(max_low_pfn)); } -- 2.1.0