From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt on
Some archs such as ARM want to avoid coalescing accross things such
as the lowmem/highmem boundary or similar. This provides the option
to control it via an arch callback for which a weak default is provided
which always allows coalescing.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh(a)kernel.crashing.org>
---
include/linux/lmb.h | 2 ++
lib/lmb.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/lmb.h b/include/linux/lmb.h
index e575801..404b49c 100644
--- a/include/linux/lmb.h
+++ b/include/linux/lmb.h
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ extern void lmb_dump_all(void);

/* Provided by the architecture */
extern phys_addr_t lmb_nid_range(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end, int *nid);
+extern int lmb_memory_can_coalesce(phys_addr_t addr1, phys_addr_t size1,
+ phys_addr_t addr2, phys_addr_t size2);

/**
* lmb_set_current_limit - Set the current allocation limit to allow
diff --git a/lib/lmb.c b/lib/lmb.c
index 2602683..84ac3a9 100644
--- a/lib/lmb.c
+++ b/lib/lmb.c
@@ -235,6 +235,12 @@ static int lmb_double_array(struct lmb_type *type)
return 0;
}

+extern int __weak lmb_memory_can_coalesce(phys_addr_t addr1, phys_addr_t size1,
+ phys_addr_t addr2, phys_addr_t size2)
+{
+ return 1;
+}
+
static long lmb_add_region(struct lmb_type *type, phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size)
{
unsigned long coalesced = 0;
@@ -256,6 +262,10 @@ static long lmb_add_region(struct lmb_type *type, phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t
return 0;

adjacent = lmb_addrs_adjacent(base, size, rgnbase, rgnsize);
+ /* Check if arch allows coalescing */
+ if (adjacent != 0 && type == &lmb.memory &&
+ !lmb_memory_can_coalesce(base, size, rgnbase, rgnsize))
+ break;
if (adjacent > 0) {
type->regions[i].base -= size;
type->regions[i].size += size;
@@ -268,7 +278,14 @@ static long lmb_add_region(struct lmb_type *type, phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t
}
}

- if ((i < type->cnt - 1) && lmb_regions_adjacent(type, i, i+1)) {
+ /* If we plugged a hole, we may want to also coalesce with the
+ * next region
+ */
+ if ((i < type->cnt - 1) && lmb_regions_adjacent(type, i, i+1) &&
+ ((type != &lmb.memory || lmb_memory_can_coalesce(type->regions[i].base,
+ type->regions[i].size,
+ type->regions[i+1].base,
+ type->regions[i+1].size)))) {
lmb_coalesce_regions(type, i, i+1);
coalesced++;
}
--
1.6.3.3

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