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| author | Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> | 2026-02-10 19:31:13 +0800 |
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| committer | Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> | 2026-02-10 19:31:13 +0800 |
| commit | 2172d6ebac9372eb01fe4505a53e18cb061e103b (patch) | |
| tree | 5ea03e1ad60d2f2b28769c3d4011979c1a544018 /tools/perf/lib/Documentation/tutorial/git@git.tavy.me:linux.git | |
| parent | 009ee0c96416ecd0c568af72ee37965e06bde460 (diff) | |
LoongArch: Prefer top-down allocation after arch_mem_init()
Currently we use bottom-up allocation after sparse_init(), the reason is
sparse_init() need a lot of memory, and bottom-up allocation may exhaust
precious low memory (below 4GB). On the other hand, SWIOTLB and CMA need
low memories for DMA32, so swiotlb_init() and dma_contiguous_reserve()
need bottom-up allocation.
Since swiotlb_init() and dma_contiguous_reserve() are both called in
arch_mem_init(), we no longer need bottom-up allocation after that. So
we set the allocation policy to top-down at the end of arch_mem_init(),
in order to avoid later memory allocations (such as KASAN) exhaust low
memory.
This solve at least two problems:
1. Some buggy BIOSes use 0xfd000000~0xfe000000 for secondary CPUs, but
didn't reserve this range, which causes smpboot failures.
2. Some DMA32 devices, such as Loongson-DRM and OHCI, cannot work with
KASAN enabled.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
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