Re: [PATCH] efi/arm: fix allocation failure when reserving the kernel base

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 05:38:54AM +0000, Chester Lin wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> index f3ce34113f89..909b11ba48d8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -1184,6 +1184,9 @@ void __init adjust_lowmem_bounds(void)
>  		phys_addr_t block_start = reg->base;
>  		phys_addr_t block_end = reg->base + reg->size;
>  
> +		if (memblock_is_nomap(reg))
> +			continue;
> +
>  		if (reg->base < vmalloc_limit) {
>  			if (block_end > lowmem_limit)
>  				/*

I think this hunk is sane - if the memory is marked nomap, then it isn't
available for the kernel's use, so as far as calculating where the
lowmem/highmem boundary is, it effectively doesn't exist and should be
skipped.

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