memblock: Introduce default allocation limit and use it to replace explicit ones

This introduce memblock.current_limit which is used to limit allocations
from memblock_alloc() or memblock_alloc_base(..., MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE).

The old MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE changes value from 0 to ~(u64)0 and can still
be used with memblock_alloc_base() to allocate really anywhere.

It is -no-longer- cropped to MEMBLOCK_REAL_LIMIT which disappears.

Note to archs: I'm leaving the default limit to MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE. I
strongly recommend that you ensure that you set an appropriate limit
during boot in order to guarantee that an memblock_alloc() at any time
results in something that is accessible with a simple __va().

The reason is that a subsequent patch will introduce the ability for
the array to resize itself by reallocating itself. The MEMBLOCK core will
honor the current limit when performing those allocations.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
index a10ffc8..b7eb1de 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static void __init irqstack_early_init(void)
 	unsigned int i;
 
 	/* interrupt stacks must be in lowmem, we get that for free on ppc32
-	 * as the memblock is limited to lowmem by MEMBLOCK_REAL_LIMIT */
+	 * as the memblock is limited to lowmem by default */
 	for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
 		softirq_ctx[i] = (struct thread_info *)
 			__va(memblock_alloc(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE));