Re: Weirdness in __alloc_bootmem_node_high

From: David Miller
Date: Sun Apr 22 2012 - 15:24:10 EST


From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:43:09 +0200

> I have it almost finished - except that it does not work :-(
> We have limitations in what area we can allocate very early,
> and here I had to use the alloc_bootmem_low() variant.
> I had preferred a variant that allowed me to allocate
> bottom-up in this case.

I think you're going to have to bear down and map all of linear kernel
mappings before you start using the bootmem code rather than
afterwards.
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