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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c index cf81049e1e5..213664c9cdc 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c @@ -840,8 +840,16 @@ static void __init *careful_allocation(int nid, unsigned long size, size, nid); /* - * If the memory came from a previously allocated node, we must - * retry with the bootmem allocator. + * We initialize the nodes in numeric order: 0, 1, 2... + * and hand over control from the LMB allocator to the + * bootmem allocator. If this function is called for + * node 5, then we know that all nodes <5 are using the + * bootmem allocator instead of the LMB allocator. + * + * So, check the nid from which this allocation came + * and double check to see if we need to use bootmem + * instead of the LMB. We don't free the LMB memory + * since it would be useless. */ new_nid = early_pfn_to_nid(ret >> PAGE_SHIFT); if (new_nid < nid) { |