Linux kernel expects nodes to have power-of-two size and does WARN_ON if this is not the case: [ 0.041052] devtmpfs: initialized [ 0.041292] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.041456] WARNING: at drivers/base/memory.c:115
This splits memory nodes into set of smaller blocks with a size which is a power of two. This makes sure the start address of every node is aligned to the node size. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru> --- hw/ppc/spapr.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c index 666b676..10202e2 100644 --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c @@ -710,8 +710,18 @@ static int spapr_populate_memory(sPAPREnvironment *spapr, void *fdt) mem_start += spapr->rma_size; node_size -= spapr->rma_size; } - spapr_populate_memory_node(fdt, i, mem_start, node_size); - mem_start += node_size; + for ( ; node_size; ) { + hwaddr sizetmp = pow2floor(node_size); + + /* mem_start != 0 here */ + if (ffs(mem_start) < ffs(sizetmp)) { + sizetmp = MIN(sizetmp, 1 << (ffs(mem_start) - 1)); + } + + spapr_populate_memory_node(fdt, i, mem_start, sizetmp); + node_size -= sizetmp; + mem_start += sizetmp; + } } return 0; -- 2.0.0