Reverse order of bootmem lists This leads to bootmem allocating first from node 0 instead of from the last node. This avoids swiotlb allocating on the last node, which doesn't really work on a machine with >4GB. Note: there is a better patch around from someone else that gets rid of the pgdat list completely. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Index: linux/mm/bootmem.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/mm/bootmem.c +++ linux/mm/bootmem.c @@ -61,9 +61,17 @@ static unsigned long __init init_bootmem { bootmem_data_t *bdata = pgdat->bdata; unsigned long mapsize = ((end - start)+7)/8; + static struct pglist_data *pgdat_last; - pgdat->pgdat_next = pgdat_list; - pgdat_list = pgdat; + pgdat->pgdat_next = NULL; + /* Add new nodes last so that bootmem always starts + searching in the first nodes, not the last ones */ + if (pgdat_last) + pgdat_last->pgdat_next = pgdat; + else { + pgdat_list = pgdat; + pgdat_last = pgdat; + } mapsize = ALIGN(mapsize, sizeof(long)); bdata->node_bootmem_map = phys_to_virt(mapstart << PAGE_SHIFT);