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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c index bd6916419472..9f764bc42b8c 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c @@ -1121,6 +1121,19 @@ int __meminit radix__vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, in pmd_t *pmd; pte_t *pte; + /* + * Make sure we align the start vmemmap addr so that we calculate + * the correct start_pfn in altmap boundary check to decided whether + * we should use altmap or RAM based backing memory allocation. Also + * the address need to be aligned for set_pte operation. + + * If the start addr is already PMD_SIZE aligned we will try to use + * a pmd mapping. We don't want to be too aggressive here beacause + * that will cause more allocations in RAM. So only if the namespace + * vmemmap start addr is PMD_SIZE aligned we will use PMD mapping. + */ + + start = ALIGN_DOWN(start, PAGE_SIZE); for (addr = start; addr < end; addr = next) { next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end); @@ -1146,8 +1159,8 @@ int __meminit radix__vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, in * in altmap block allocation failures, in which case * we fallback to RAM for vmemmap allocation. */ - if (altmap && (!IS_ALIGNED(addr, PMD_SIZE) || - altmap_cross_boundary(altmap, addr, PMD_SIZE))) { + if (!IS_ALIGNED(addr, PMD_SIZE) || (altmap && + altmap_cross_boundary(altmap, addr, PMD_SIZE))) { /* * make sure we don't create altmap mappings * covering things outside the device. |