Activating CONFIG_PIN_TLB allows access to the 24 first Mbytes of memory at bootup instead of 8. It is needed for "big" kernels for instance when activating CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT. This needs to be taken into account in init_32 too, otherwise memory allocation soon fails after startup.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr> diff -ur linux-3.11.org/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S linux-3.11/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S --- linux-3.11.org/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c 2013-09-02 22:46:10.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-3.11/arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c 2013-09-09 11:28:54.000000000 +0200 @@ -213,7 +213,12 @@ */ BUG_ON(first_memblock_base != 0); +#ifdef CONFIG_PIN_TLB + /* 8xx can only access 24MB at the moment */ + memblock_set_current_limit(min_t(u64, first_memblock_size, 0x01800000)); +#else /* 8xx can only access 8MB at the moment */ memblock_set_current_limit(min_t(u64, first_memblock_size, 0x00800000)); +#endif } #endif /* CONFIG_8xx */ _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev