From: Huacai Chen Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:31:13 +0000 (+0800) Subject: LoongArch: Prefer top-down allocation after arch_mem_init() X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2172d6ebac9372eb01fe4505a53e18cb061e103b;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git LoongArch: Prefer top-down allocation after arch_mem_init() Currently we use bottom-up allocation after sparse_init(), the reason is sparse_init() need a lot of memory, and bottom-up allocation may exhaust precious low memory (below 4GB). On the other hand, SWIOTLB and CMA need low memories for DMA32, so swiotlb_init() and dma_contiguous_reserve() need bottom-up allocation. Since swiotlb_init() and dma_contiguous_reserve() are both called in arch_mem_init(), we no longer need bottom-up allocation after that. So we set the allocation policy to top-down at the end of arch_mem_init(), in order to avoid later memory allocations (such as KASAN) exhaust low memory. This solve at least two problems: 1. Some buggy BIOSes use 0xfd000000~0xfe000000 for secondary CPUs, but didn't reserve this range, which causes smpboot failures. 2. Some DMA32 devices, such as Loongson-DRM and OHCI, cannot work with KASAN enabled. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen --- diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c b/arch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c index 20cb6f306456..2b260d15b2e2 100644 --- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c @@ -421,6 +421,7 @@ static void __init arch_mem_init(char **cmdline_p) PFN_UP(__pa_symbol(&__nosave_end))); memblock_dump_all(); + memblock_set_bottom_up(false); early_memtest(PFN_PHYS(ARCH_PFN_OFFSET), PFN_PHYS(max_low_pfn)); }