[PATCH] x86_64: Try to allocate node memmap near the end of node

This fixes problems with very large nodes (over 128GB) filling up all of
the first 4GB with their mem_map and not leaving enough space for the
swiotlb.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/numa.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/numa.c
index e4b62753a19..07471a3eb19 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/numa.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ void __init setup_node_bootmem(int nodeid, unsigned long start, unsigned long en
 /* Initialize final allocator for a zone */
 void __init setup_node_zones(int nodeid)
 { 
-	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn; 
+	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn, memmapsize, limit;
 	unsigned long zones[MAX_NR_ZONES];
 	unsigned long holes[MAX_NR_ZONES];
 
@@ -159,6 +159,16 @@ void __init setup_node_zones(int nodeid)
 	Dprintk(KERN_INFO "Setting up node %d %lx-%lx\n",
 		nodeid, start_pfn, end_pfn);
 
+	/* Try to allocate mem_map at end to not fill up precious <4GB
+	   memory. */
+	memmapsize = sizeof(struct page) * (end_pfn-start_pfn);
+	limit = end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
+	NODE_DATA(nodeid)->node_mem_map = 
+		__alloc_bootmem_core(NODE_DATA(nodeid)->bdata, 
+				memmapsize, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, 
+				round_down(limit - memmapsize, PAGE_SIZE), 
+				limit);
+
 	size_zones(zones, holes, start_pfn, end_pfn);
 	free_area_init_node(nodeid, NODE_DATA(nodeid), zones,
 			    start_pfn, holes);