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[ARM] prevent the vmalloc cmdline argument from eating all memory

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Commit 8d5796d2ec allows for the vmalloc
area to be resized from the kernel cmdline.  Make sure it cannot overlap
with RAM entirely.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Nicolas Pitre 2008-09-19 10:43:06 -04:00 committed by Russell King
parent 6db015e49c
commit 9210807cb5
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arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
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@ -646,6 +646,13 @@ static void __init early_vmalloc(char **arg)
"vmalloc area too small, limiting to %luMB\n",
vmalloc_reserve >> 20);
}
if (vmalloc_reserve > VMALLOC_END - (PAGE_OFFSET + SZ_32M)) {
vmalloc_reserve = VMALLOC_END - (PAGE_OFFSET + SZ_32M);
printk(KERN_WARNING
"vmalloc area is too big, limiting to %luMB\n",
vmalloc_reserve >> 20);
}
}
__early_param("vmalloc=", early_vmalloc);