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Subject[PATCH v3.3-rc5] memblock: Fix size aligning of memblock_alloc_base_nid()
memblock allocator aligns @size to @align to reduce the amount of
fragmentation. 7bd0b0f0da "memblock: Reimplement memblock allocation
using reverse free area iterator" broke it by incorrectly relocating
@size aligning to memblock_find_in_range_node(). As the aligned size
is not propagated back to memblock_alloc_base_nid(), the actually
reserved size isn't aligned.

While this increases memory use for memblock reserved array, this
shouldn't cause any critical failure; however, it seems that the size
aligning was hiding a use-beyond-allocation bug in sparc64 and losing
the aligning causes boot failure.

The underlying problem is currently being debugged but this is a
proper fix in itself, it's already pretty late in -rc cycle for boot
failures and reverting the change for debugging isn't difficult.
Restore the size aligning moving it to memblock_alloc_base_nid().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Reported-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.SOC.1.00.1202130942030.1488@math.ut.ee>
---
mm/memblock.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
index 77b5f22..99f2855 100644
--- a/mm/memblock.c
+++ b/mm/memblock.c
@@ -99,9 +99,6 @@ phys_addr_t __init_memblock memblock_find_in_range_node(phys_addr_t start,
phys_addr_t this_start, this_end, cand;
u64 i;

- /* align @size to avoid excessive fragmentation on reserved array */
- size = round_up(size, align);
-
/* pump up @end */
if (end == MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE)
end = memblock.current_limit;
@@ -731,6 +728,9 @@ static phys_addr_t __init memblock_alloc_base_nid(phys_addr_t size,
{
phys_addr_t found;

+ /* align @size to avoid excessive fragmentation on reserved array */
+ size = round_up(size, align);
+
found = memblock_find_in_range_node(0, max_addr, size, align, nid);
if (found && !memblock_reserve(found, size))
return found;

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