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arm64: limit memory regions based on DT property, usable-memory-range
authorAKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Mon, 3 Apr 2017 02:24:31 +0000 (11:24 +0900)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Wed, 5 Apr 2017 17:26:54 +0000 (18:26 +0100)
commit8f579b1c4e347b23bfa747bc2cc0a55dd1b7e5fa
treeaeb4b6fbc0739e9958ab9a7f718d4a739f30595b
parentc9ca9b4e2198a4dbeb83739460d4a7ff9ffed24f
arm64: limit memory regions based on DT property, usable-memory-range

Crash dump kernel uses only a limited range of available memory as System
RAM. On arm64 kdump, This memory range is advertised to crash dump kernel
via a device-tree property under /chosen,
   linux,usable-memory-range = <BASE SIZE>

Crash dump kernel reads this property at boot time and calls
memblock_cap_memory_range() to limit usable memory which are listed either
in UEFI memory map table or "memory" nodes of a device tree blob.

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/mm/init.c