This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARM: 8685/1: ensure memblock-limit is pmd-aligned to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm-8685-1-ensure-memblock-limit-is-pmd-aligned.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9e25ebfe56ece7541cd10a20d715cbdd148a2e06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:41:36 +0100 Subject: ARM: 8685/1: ensure memblock-limit is pmd-aligned From: Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx> commit 9e25ebfe56ece7541cd10a20d715cbdd148a2e06 upstream. The pmd containing memblock_limit is cleared by prepare_page_table() which creates the opportunity for early_alloc() to allocate unmapped memory if memblock_limit is not pmd aligned causing a boot-time hang. Commit 965278dcb8ab ("ARM: 8356/1: mm: handle non-pmd-aligned end of RAM") attempted to resolve this problem, but there is a path through the adjust_lowmem_bounds() routine where if all memory regions start and end on pmd-aligned addresses the memblock_limit will be set to arm_lowmem_limit. Since arm_lowmem_limit can be affected by the vmalloc early parameter, the value of arm_lowmem_limit may not be pmd-aligned. This commit corrects this oversight such that memblock_limit is always rounded down to pmd-alignment. Fixes: 965278dcb8ab ("ARM: 8356/1: mm: handle non-pmd-aligned end of RAM") Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c @@ -1184,15 +1184,15 @@ void __init sanity_check_meminfo(void) high_memory = __va(arm_lowmem_limit - 1) + 1; + if (!memblock_limit) + memblock_limit = arm_lowmem_limit; + /* * Round the memblock limit down to a pmd size. This * helps to ensure that we will allocate memory from the * last full pmd, which should be mapped. */ - if (memblock_limit) - memblock_limit = round_down(memblock_limit, PMD_SIZE); - if (!memblock_limit) - memblock_limit = arm_lowmem_limit; + memblock_limit = round_down(memblock_limit, PMD_SIZE); memblock_set_current_limit(memblock_limit); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from opendmb@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/arm-8685-1-ensure-memblock-limit-is-pmd-aligned.patch