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authorHuacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>2026-02-10 19:31:13 +0800
committerHuacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>2026-02-10 19:31:13 +0800
commit2172d6ebac9372eb01fe4505a53e18cb061e103b (patch)
tree5ea03e1ad60d2f2b28769c3d4011979c1a544018
parent009ee0c96416ecd0c568af72ee37965e06bde460 (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>
-rw-r--r--arch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c b/arch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c
index 20cb6f306456..2b260d15b2e2 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c
@@ -421,6 +421,7 @@ static void __init arch_mem_init(char **cmdline_p)
PFN_UP(__pa_symbol(&__nosave_end)));
memblock_dump_all();
+ memblock_set_bottom_up(false);
early_memtest(PFN_PHYS(ARCH_PFN_OFFSET), PFN_PHYS(max_low_pfn));
}