Re: [PATCH] memblock: Don't adjust size in memblock_find_base()

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 12:41 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> While applying patch to use memblock to find aperture for 64bit x86.
> Ingo found system with 1g + force_iommu

Please run that through DaveM. I seem to remember that he relies on the
size alignment to ensure that a lot of tiny allocations get properly
coalesced or he runs out of regions at boot time.

A better option would be to use a fixed alignment, or sized based but
with a max threshold such as PAGE_SIZE.

Cheers,
Ben.

> > No AGP bridge found
> > Node 0: aperture @ 38000000 size 32 MB
> > Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring.
> > Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole
> > Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup
> > This costs you 64 MB of RAM
> > Cannot allocate aperture memory hole (0,65536K)
> 
> the corresponding code:
> 	addr = memblock_find_in_range(0, 1ULL<<32, aper_size, 512ULL<<20);
> 	if (addr == MEMBLOCK_ERROR || addr + aper_size > 0xffffffff) {
> 		printk(KERN_ERR
> 			"Cannot allocate aperture memory hole (%lx,%uK)\n",
> 				addr, aper_size>>10);
> 		return 0;
> 	}
> 	memblock_x86_reserve_range(addr, addr + aper_size, "aperture64")
> 
> it fails because memblock core code align the size with 512M. that could make
> size way too big.
> 
> So don't align the size in that case.
> 
> actually __memblock_alloc_base, the another caller already align that before calling that function.
> 
> BTW. x86 does not use __memblock_alloc_base...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> 
> ---
>  mm/memblock.c |    2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/memblock.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memblock.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -137,8 +137,6 @@ static phys_addr_t __init_memblock membl
>  
>  	BUG_ON(0 == size);
>  
> -	size = memblock_align_up(size, align);
> -
>  	/* Pump up max_addr */
>  	if (end == MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE)
>  		end = memblock.current_limit;
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