From: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>,
Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>,
Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>,
"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/mem: Move CMA reservations to arch_mm_preinit
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 00:17:59 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e532cf0db5be99afbe20eed699163d5e86cd71f.1772303986.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
commit 4267739cabb8 ("arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model"),
changed the initialization order of "pageblock_order" from...
start_kernel()
- setup_arch()
- initmem_init()
- sparse_init()
- set_pageblock_order(); // this sets the pageblock_order
- xxx_cma_reserve();
to...
start_kernel()
- setup_arch()
- xxx_cma_reserve();
- mm_core_init_early()
- free_area_init()
- sparse_init()
- set_pageblock_order() // this sets the pageblock_order.
So this means, pageblock_order is not initialized before these cma
reservation function calls, hence we are seeing CMA failures like...
[ 0.000000] kvm_cma_reserve: reserving 3276 MiB for global area
[ 0.000000] cma: pageblock_order not yet initialized. Called during early boot?
[ 0.000000] cma: Failed to reserve 3276 MiB
....
[ 0.000000][ T0] cma: pageblock_order not yet initialized. Called during early boot?
[ 0.000000][ T0] cma: Failed to reserve 1024 MiB
This patch moves these CMA reservations to arch_mm_preinit() which
happens in mm_core_init() (which happens after pageblock_order is
initialized), but before the memblock moves the free memory to buddy.
Fixes: 4267739cabb8 ("arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model")
Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/4c338a29-d190-44f3-8874-6cfa0a031f0b@linux.ibm.com/
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c | 10 ----------
arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
index cb5b73adc250..b1761909c23f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
#include <linux/of_irq.h>
#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
#include <linux/pgtable.h>
-#include <asm/kexec.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/paca.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
@@ -995,15 +994,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
initmem_init();
- /*
- * Reserve large chunks of memory for use by CMA for kdump, fadump, KVM and
- * hugetlb. These must be called after initmem_init(), so that
- * pageblock_order is initialised.
- */
- fadump_cma_init();
- kdump_cma_reserve();
- kvm_cma_reserve();
-
early_memtest(min_low_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, max_low_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
if (ppc_md.setup_arch)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index a985fc96b953..b7982d0243d4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@
#include <asm/setup.h>
#include <asm/fixmap.h>
+#include <asm/fadump.h>
+#include <asm/kexec.h>
+#include <asm/kvm_ppc.h>
+
#include <mm/mmu_decl.h>
unsigned long long memory_limit __initdata;
@@ -268,6 +272,16 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
void __init arch_mm_preinit(void)
{
+
+ /*
+ * Reserve large chunks of memory for use by CMA for kdump, fadump, KVM
+ * and hugetlb. These must be called after pageblock_order is
+ * initialised.
+ */
+ fadump_cma_init();
+ kdump_cma_reserve();
+ kvm_cma_reserve();
+
/*
* book3s is limited to 16 page sizes due to encoding this in
* a 4-bit field for slices.
--
2.53.0
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