Hello toshi-san,
On 09/14/2013 05:53 AM, Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 17:30 +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> :
>> @@ -100,8 +180,7 @@ phys_addr_t __init_memblock memblock_find_in_range_node(phys_addr_t start,
>> phys_addr_t end, phys_addr_t size,
>> phys_addr_t align, int nid)
>> {
>> - phys_addr_t this_start, this_end, cand;
>> - u64 i;
>> + phys_addr_t ret;
>>
>> /* pump up @end */
>> if (end == MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE)
>> @@ -111,18 +190,22 @@ phys_addr_t __init_memblock memblock_find_in_range_node(phys_addr_t start,
>> start = max_t(phys_addr_t, start, PAGE_SIZE);
>> end = max(start, end);
>>
>> - for_each_free_mem_range_reverse(i, nid, &this_start, &this_end, NULL) {
>> - this_start = clamp(this_start, start, end);
>> - this_end = clamp(this_end, start, end);
>> + if (memblock_direction_bottom_up()) {
>> + /*
>> + * MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE is 0, which is less than the end
>> + * of kernel image. So callers specify MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE
>> + * as @start is OK.
>> + */
>> + start = max(start, __pa_symbol(_end)); /* End of kernel image. */
>>
>> - if (this_end < size)
>> - continue;
>> + ret = __memblock_find_range(start, end, size, align, nid);
>> + if (ret)
>> + return ret;
>>
>> - cand = round_down(this_end - size, align);
>> - if (cand >= this_start)
>> - return cand;
>> + pr_warn("memblock: Failed to allocate memory in bottom up direction. Now try top down direction.\n");
>
> Is there any chance that this retry will succeed given that start and
> end are still the same?
Thanks for pointing this. We've made a mistake here. If the original start
is less than __pa_symbol(_end), and if the bottom up search fails, then
the top down search deserves a try with the original start argument.
>
> Thanks,
> -Toshi
>
>
>> }
>> - return 0;
>> +
>> + return __memblock_find_range_rev(start, end, size, align, nid);
>> }
>>
>> /**
>
>
>
--
Thanks.
Zhang Yanfei
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