[PATCH] mm: memblock: do not enforce current limit for memblock_phys* family

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Mon Oct 14 22:44:23 UTC 2019


On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 00:31:01 +0300 Mike Rapoport <rppt at kernel.org> wrote:

> Until commit 92d12f9544b7 ("memblock: refactor internal allocation
> functions") the maximal address for memblock allocations was forced to
> memblock.current_limit only for the allocation functions returning virtual
> address. The changes introduced by that commit moved the limit enforcement
> into the allocation core and as a result the allocation functions returning
> physical address also started to limit allocations to
> memblock.current_limit.
> 
> This caused breakage of etnaviv GPU driver:
> 
> ...
>

So I'll add a cc:stable, yes?


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