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    memblock: Fix size aligning of memblock_alloc_base_nid() · 847854f5
    Tejun Heo authored
    memblock allocator aligns @size to @align to reduce the amount
    of fragmentation.  Commit:
    
     7bd0b0f0 ("memblock: Reimplement memblock allocation using reverse free area iterator")
    
    Broke it by incorrectly relocating @size aligning to
    memblock_find_in_range_node().  As the aligned size is not
    propagated back to memblock_alloc_base_nid(), the actually
    reserved size isn't aligned.
    
    While this increases memory use for memblock reserved array,
    this shouldn't cause any critical failure; however, it seems
    that the size aligning was hiding a use-beyond-allocation bug in
    sparc64 and losing the aligning causes boot failure.
    
    The underlying problem is currently being debugged but this is a
    proper fix in itself, it's already pretty late in -rc cycle for
    boot failures and reverting the change for debugging isn't
    difficult. Restore the size aligning moving it to
    memblock_alloc_base_nid().
    Reported-by: default avatarMeelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
    Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120228205621.GC3252@dhcp-172-17-108-109.mtv.corp.google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    LKML-Reference: <alpine.SOC.1.00.1202130942030.1488@math.ut.ee>
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