Re: [PATCH for 4.9 11/59] MIPS: fix mem=X@Y commandline processing

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On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 08:59:05PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
><alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 73fbc1eba7ffa3bf0ad12486232a8a1edb4e4411 ]
>>
>> When a memory offset is specified through the commandline, add the
>> memory in range PHYS_OFFSET:Y as reserved memory area.
>> Otherwise the bootmem allocator is initialised with low page equal to
>> min_low_pfn = PHYS_OFFSET, and in free_all_bootmem will process pages
>> starting from min_low_pfn instead of PFN(Y).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Patchwork: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__patchwork.linux-2Dmips.org_patch_14613_&d=DwIBaQ&c=udBTRvFvXC5Dhqg7UHpJlPps3mZ3LRxpb6__0PomBTQ&r=bUtaaC9mlBij4OjEG_D-KPul_335azYzfC4Rjgomobo&m=6siOw0e29CYMhuJcboVwEeX-LcC1yJjtnGPVl_1tClQ&s=rP-QGn8HHjuow4b4qd6sfl_EEPoAKkxAffkh1zEq-kc&e=
>> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 4 ++++
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
>> index f66e5ce505b2..38697f25d168 100644
>> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
>> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
>> @@ -589,6 +589,10 @@ static int __init early_parse_mem(char *p)
>>                 start = memparse(p + 1, &p);
>>
>>         add_memory_region(start, size, BOOT_MEM_RAM);
>> +
>> +       if (start && start > PHYS_OFFSET)
>> +               add_memory_region(PHYS_OFFSET, start - PHYS_OFFSET,
>> +                               BOOT_MEM_RESERVED);
>>         return 0;
>>  }
>>  early_param("mem", early_parse_mem);
>
>Does not work on MIPS Creator CI20. See:

Hm, so upstream is actually broken right now?

-- 

Thanks,
Sasha

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