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The conversion of alpha to memblock as the early memory manager caused boot to hang as described at [1]. The issue is caused because for CONFIG_DISCTONTIGMEM=y case, memblock_add() is called using memory start PFN that had been rounded down to the nearest 8Mb and it caused memblock to see more memory that is actually present in the system. Besides, memblock allocates memory from high addresses while bootmem was using low memory, which broke the assumption that early allocations are always accessible by the hardware. This patch ensures that memblock_add() is using the correct PFN for the memory start and forces memblock to use bottom-up allocations. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/22/1032 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543233216-25833-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.