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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c b/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c index 70546975a920..dab874647530 100644 --- a/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c @@ -126,14 +126,32 @@ static unsigned int prom_early_allocated __initdata; void * __init prom_early_alloc(unsigned long size) { + static u8 *mem; + static size_t free_mem; void *res; - res = alloc_bootmem(size); - if (res) - memset(res, 0, size); - - prom_early_allocated += size; + if (free_mem < size) { + const size_t chunk_size = max(PAGE_SIZE, size); + + /* + * To mimimize the number of allocations, grab at least + * PAGE_SIZE of memory (that's an arbitrary choice that's + * fast enough on the platforms we care about while minimizing + * wasted bootmem) and hand off chunks of it to callers. + */ + res = alloc_bootmem(chunk_size); + if (!res) + return NULL; + prom_early_allocated += chunk_size; + memset(res, 0, chunk_size); + free_mem = chunk_size; + mem = res; + } + /* allocate from the local cache */ + free_mem -= size; + res = mem; + mem += size; return res; } |