ARM: add helpful message when truncating physical memory
authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:52:58 +0000 (10:52 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:33:31 +0000 (14:33 +0100)
Add a nmessage to suggest that HIGHMEM is enabled when physical memory
is truncated due to lack of virtual address space to map it in the low
memory mapping.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/mm/mmu.c

index 904d1532e6d08b56b5b3361b722eedd141ee8a58..79de062c6077124fde71b9f3e3a1380e9400be9f 100644 (file)
@@ -1072,6 +1072,7 @@ void __init sanity_check_meminfo(void)
        int highmem = 0;
        phys_addr_t vmalloc_limit = __pa(vmalloc_min - 1) + 1;
        struct memblock_region *reg;
+       bool should_use_highmem = false;
 
        for_each_memblock(memory, reg) {
                phys_addr_t block_start = reg->base;
@@ -1090,6 +1091,7 @@ void __init sanity_check_meminfo(void)
                                pr_notice("Ignoring RAM at %pa-%pa (!CONFIG_HIGHMEM)\n",
                                          &block_start, &block_end);
                                memblock_remove(reg->base, reg->size);
+                               should_use_highmem = true;
                                continue;
                        }
 
@@ -1100,6 +1102,7 @@ void __init sanity_check_meminfo(void)
                                          &block_start, &block_end, &vmalloc_limit);
                                memblock_remove(vmalloc_limit, overlap_size);
                                block_end = vmalloc_limit;
+                               should_use_highmem = true;
                        }
                }
 
@@ -1134,6 +1137,9 @@ void __init sanity_check_meminfo(void)
                }
        }
 
+       if (should_use_highmem)
+               pr_notice("Consider using a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.\n");
+
        high_memory = __va(arm_lowmem_limit - 1) + 1;
 
        /*