* Shilimkar, Santosh <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx> [120927 23:35]: > 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 ? Applying it now into fixes for the -rc cycle. Regards, Tony -- 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
