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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-07-28 07:25:10 +0200
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-08-05 04:56:30 +0200
commit25818f0f288cd5333ba5a90ad6dde3def4c4ff58 (patch)
tree993384eff73bac874201d342c43a8e596dd1f485
parentmemblock: Export MEMBLOCK_ERROR (diff)
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memblock: Make MEMBLOCK_ERROR be 0
And ensure we don't hand out 0 as a valid allocation. We put the low limit at PAGE_SIZE arbitrarily. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/memblock.h2
-rw-r--r--mm/memblock.c6
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
index 1a9c29cc92fa..dfa64494ced1 100644
--- a/include/linux/memblock.h
+++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
#include <asm/memblock.h>
#define INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS 128
-#define MEMBLOCK_ERROR (~(phys_addr_t)0)
+#define MEMBLOCK_ERROR 0
struct memblock_region {
phys_addr_t base;
diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
index 85cfa1d3ab28..cb520df2a414 100644
--- a/mm/memblock.c
+++ b/mm/memblock.c
@@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ static phys_addr_t __init memblock_find_region(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t en
phys_addr_t base, res_base;
long j;
+ /* Prevent allocations returning 0 as it's also used to
+ * indicate an allocation failure
+ */
+ if (start == 0)
+ start = PAGE_SIZE;
+
base = memblock_align_down((end - size), align);
while (start <= base) {
j = memblock_overlaps_region(&memblock.reserved, base, size);