Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] arch: simplify several early memory allocations

From: Sam Ravnborg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 17:29:08 +0100

Hi Mike.

> index c37955d..2a17665 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/prom_64.c
> +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/prom_64.c
> @@ -34,16 +34,13 @@
>  
>  void * __init prom_early_alloc(unsigned long size)
>  {
> -	unsigned long paddr = memblock_phys_alloc(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
> -	void *ret;
> +	void *ret = memblock_alloc(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
>  
> -	if (!paddr) {
> +	if (!ret) {
>  		prom_printf("prom_early_alloc(%lu) failed\n", size);
>  		prom_halt();
>  	}
>  
> -	ret = __va(paddr);
> -	memset(ret, 0, size);
>  	prom_early_allocated += size;
>  
>  	return ret;

memblock_alloc() calls memblock_alloc_try_nid().
And if allocation fails then memblock_alloc_try_nid() calls panic().
So will we ever hit the prom_halt() code?

Do we have a panic() implementation that actually returns?

> diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
> index 3c8aac2..52884f4 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -1089,16 +1089,13 @@ static void __init allocate_node_data(int nid)
>  	struct pglist_data *p;
>  	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
> -	unsigned long paddr;
>  
> -	paddr = memblock_phys_alloc_try_nid(sizeof(struct pglist_data),
> -					    SMP_CACHE_BYTES, nid);
> -	if (!paddr) {
> +	NODE_DATA(nid) = memblock_alloc_node(sizeof(struct pglist_data),
> +					     SMP_CACHE_BYTES, nid);
> +	if (!NODE_DATA(nid)) {
>  		prom_printf("Cannot allocate pglist_data for nid[%d]\n", nid);
>  		prom_halt();
>  	}
> -	NODE_DATA(nid) = __va(paddr);
> -	memset(NODE_DATA(nid), 0, sizeof(struct pglist_data));
>  
>  	NODE_DATA(nid)->node_id = nid;
>  #endif

Same here.

I did not look at the other cases.

	Sam