On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:44 PM, R Sricharan <r.sricharan@xxxxxx> wrote: > memblock_steal tries to reserve physical memory during boot. > When the requested size is not aligned on the section size > then, the remaining memory available for lowmem becomes > unaligned on the section boundary. There is a issue with this, > which is discussed in the thread below. > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/28/112 > > The final conclusion from the thread seems to > be align the memblock_steal calls on the SECTION boundary. > The issue comes out when LPAE is enabled, where the > section size is 2MB. > > Boot tested this on OMAP5 evm with and without LPAE. > > Signed-off-by: R Sricharan <r.sricharan@xxxxxx> > --- > [V2] Corrected the subject and added one more description line. > Looks good. Acked-by : Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx> Tony, Can you take this into your next "fixes-noncritical" queue please ? Regards, Santosh -- 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
