Found this with the cubox, which wants to obtain large blocks of RAM for the GPU and VPU devices at boot time. I don't believe any other platforms care where the memory comes from, so I think this is safe. However, OMAP and iMX folk should check this patch - thanks. 8<=== From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ARM: Allow arm_memblock_steal() to remove memory from any RAM region Allow arm_memblock_steal() to remove memory from any RAM region, including highmem areas. This allows memory to be stolen from the very top of declared memory, including highmem areas, rather than our precious lowmem. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/mm/init.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c index f54d592..04632f3 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ phys_addr_t __init arm_memblock_steal(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align) BUG_ON(!arm_memblock_steal_permitted); - phys = memblock_alloc(size, align); + phys = memblock_alloc_base(size, align, MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE); memblock_free(phys, size); memblock_remove(phys, size); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
