LoongArch: Prefer top-down allocation after arch_mem_init()

[ Upstream commit 2172d6ebac ]

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 <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Huacai Chen
2026-03-04 07:21:16 -05:00
committed by Sasha Levin
parent bb1a54f7f0
commit a50371c6ad
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@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ 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));
}