[PATCH 1/8] of/fdt: split off FDT self reservation from memreserve processing

[mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 11:46:27AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 1 June 2015 at 11:56, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 08:56:07AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> (snip non-LAKML CCs)
> >>
> >> On 22 May 2015 at 12:35, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 08:41:53AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> >> This splits off the reservation of the memory occupied by the FDT
> >> >> binary itself from the processing of the memory reservations it
> >> >> contains. This is necessary because the physical address of the FDT,
> >> >> which is needed to perform the reservation, may not be known to the
> >> >> FDT driver core, i.e., it may be mapped outside the linear direct
> >> >> mapping, in which case __pa() returns a bogus value.
> >> >>
> >> >> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> >> >> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> >> >> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> >> >> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> >> >> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> >> >
> >> > For the arm64 part:
> >> >
> >> > Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> >>
> >> Thanks Catalin,
> >>
> >> Since there has been virtually no discussion about these patches, I
> >> guess they have missed the window for being considered for inclusion
> >> in v4.2
> >>
> >> May I suggest that you at least consider these patches regarding the ID map
> >>
> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/411720
> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/411721
> >>
> >> since they are self-contained and the first one does fix a potential
> >> problem where the Image placement logic in the stub does not take the
> >> 512 MB alignment boundary into account. The second one is a trivial
> >> cleanup.
> >
> > FWIW both of these look good to me.
> >
> >> Perhaps Mark can comment on the desirability to include the FDT
> >> remapping patch (which depends on this 1/8).
> >>
> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/5738
> >
> > I would like to see that taken if possible.
> >
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Actually, it does make kind of sense to take these four (i.e., this
> 1/8 plus the three referenced above) patches as a set, since together
> they address all the known shortcomings in the EFI stub regarding the
> placement of both the FDT and the kernel image. All the other stuff
> can easily be deferred.

Putting those together as a cleanup+preparation series makes sense to
me, if that makes it easy for Catalin to pick them up now.

Do we have/need acks from Ben or Paul on this reservation patch?

Thanks,
Mark.