ARM: Add arm_memblock_steal() to allocate memory away from the kernel

Several platforms are now using the memblock_alloc+memblock_free+
memblock_remove trick to obtain memory which won't be mapped in the
kernel's page tables.  Most platforms do this (correctly) in the
->reserve callback.  However, OMAP has started to call these functions
outside of this callback, and this is extremely unsafe - memory will
not be unmapped, and could well be given out after memblock is no
longer responsible for its management.

So, provide arm_memblock_steal() to perform this function, and ensure
that it panic()s if it is used inappropriately.  Convert everyone
over, including OMAP.

As a result, OMAP with OMAP4_ERRATA_I688 enabled will panic on boot
with this change.  Mark this option as BROKEN and make it depend on
BROKEN.  OMAP needs to be fixed, or 137d105d50 (ARM: OMAP4: Fix
errata i688 with MPU interconnect barriers.) reverted until such
time it can be fixed correctly.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-omap/devices.c b/arch/arm/plat-omap/devices.c
index 19719329a47b..60278f47c0bd 100644
--- a/arch/arm/plat-omap/devices.c
+++ b/arch/arm/plat-omap/devices.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <mach/hardware.h>
 #include <asm/mach-types.h>
 #include <asm/mach/map.h>
+#include <asm/memblock.h>
 
 #include <plat/tc.h>
 #include <plat/board.h>
@@ -164,14 +165,12 @@ void __init omap_dsp_reserve_sdram_memblock(void)
 	if (!size)
 		return;
 
-	paddr = memblock_alloc(size, SZ_1M);
+	paddr = arm_memblock_steal(size, SZ_1M);
 	if (!paddr) {
 		pr_err("%s: failed to reserve %x bytes\n",
 				__func__, size);
 		return;
 	}
-	memblock_free(paddr, size);
-	memblock_remove(paddr, size);
 
 	omap_dsp_phys_mempool_base = paddr;
 }