[PATCH] powerpc 8xx: Fixing memory init issue with CONFIG_PIN_TLB

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Fri Oct 11 23:56:40 EST 2013


Activating CONFIG_PIN_TLB allows access to the 24 first Mbytes of memory at
bootup instead of 8. It is needed for "big" kernels for instance when activating
CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT. This needs to be taken into account in init_32 too,
otherwise memory allocation soon fails after startup.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>

diff -ur linux-3.11.org/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S linux-3.11/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
--- linux-3.11.org/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c	2013-09-02 22:46:10.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-3.11/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c	2013-09-09 11:28:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -213,7 +213,12 @@
 	 */
 	BUG_ON(first_memblock_base != 0);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PIN_TLB
+	/* 8xx can only access 24MB at the moment */
+	memblock_set_current_limit(min_t(u64, first_memblock_size, 0x01800000));
+#else
 	/* 8xx can only access 8MB at the moment */
 	memblock_set_current_limit(min_t(u64, first_memblock_size, 0x00800000));
+#endif
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_8xx */


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