Re: [PATCH] MIPS: fix mapstart when using initrd

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 05:10:19PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:

> On 10/07/13 17:08, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 07:40:26PM +0530, Ashok Kumar wrote:
> >>Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2013 19:40:26 +0530
> >>From: Ashok Kumar <ashoks@broadcom.com>
> >>To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, gerg@uclinux.org
> >>cc: ralf@linux-mips.org, Ashok Kumar <ashoks@broadcom.com>
> >>Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: fix mapstart when using initrd
> >>Content-Type: text/plain
> >>
> >>When initrd is present in the PFN right after the _end, bootmem
> >>bitmap(mapstart) overwrites it. So check for initrd_end in
> >>mapstart calculation.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Ashok Kumar <ashoks@broadcom.com>
> >>---
> >>This is seen after the commit
> >>"mips: fix start of free memory when using initrd"
> >>in git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-sfr.git branch
> >>
> >>Tested the image on MIPS platform creating the above
> >>said scenario and initrd was corrupted.
> >
> >And it gloriously breaks the build if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is disabled.
> >Now most configurations will fail with something like:
> >
> >[...]
> >   LD      vmlinux
> >arch/mips/built-in.o: In function `setup_arch':
> >(.init.text+0xff8): undefined reference to `initrd_end'
> >arch/mips/built-in.o: In function `setup_arch':
> >(.init.text+0xffc): undefined reference to `initrd_end'
> >make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> >make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> >make: *** [all] Error 2
> >make: Leaving directory `/home/ralf/src/linux/obj/lasat-build'
> >
> >   Ralf
> >
> Hi Ralf,
> 
> I just sent a patch for that
> 
> http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6028/

Yes, I noticed that.  I folded that into Greg's original patch as well.

And now back to the scheduled development program :)

Btw, brownie points for an #ifdef-less fix ...

  Ralf