From: Heiko Carstens Introduce ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT which can be set per architecture to override the 4GB default limit used by the bootmem allocater within __alloc_bootmem_low() and __alloc_bootmem_low_node(). E.g. s390 needs a 2GB limit instead of 4GB. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/asm-s390/processor.h | 2 ++ mm/bootmem.c | 11 ++++++++--- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN include/asm-s390/processor.h~bootmem-use-max_dma_address-instead-of-low32limit include/asm-s390/processor.h --- a/include/asm-s390/processor.h~bootmem-use-max_dma_address-instead-of-low32limit +++ a/include/asm-s390/processor.h @@ -337,6 +337,8 @@ struct notifier_block; int register_idle_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); int unregister_idle_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); +#define ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT 0x7fffffffUL + #endif #endif /* __ASM_S390_PROCESSOR_H */ diff -puN mm/bootmem.c~bootmem-use-max_dma_address-instead-of-low32limit mm/bootmem.c --- a/mm/bootmem.c~bootmem-use-max_dma_address-instead-of-low32limit +++ a/mm/bootmem.c @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #include #include +#include #include "internal.h" @@ -453,7 +454,9 @@ void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node(pg_da return __alloc_bootmem(size, align, goal); } -#define LOW32LIMIT 0xffffffff +#ifndef ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT +#define ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT 0xffffffffUL +#endif void * __init __alloc_bootmem_low(unsigned long size, unsigned long align, unsigned long goal) @@ -462,7 +465,8 @@ void * __init __alloc_bootmem_low(unsign void *ptr; list_for_each_entry(bdata, &bdata_list, list) { - ptr = __alloc_bootmem_core(bdata, size, align, goal, LOW32LIMIT); + ptr = __alloc_bootmem_core(bdata, size, align, goal, + ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT); if (ptr) return ptr; } @@ -478,5 +482,6 @@ void * __init __alloc_bootmem_low(unsign void * __init __alloc_bootmem_low_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size, unsigned long align, unsigned long goal) { - return __alloc_bootmem_core(pgdat->bdata, size, align, goal, LOW32LIMIT); + return __alloc_bootmem_core(pgdat->bdata, size, align, goal, + ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT); } _