Re: [PATCH 6.2.11 3/3] riscv: No need to relocate the dtb as it lies in the fixmap region

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 05:23:33PM +0200, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 11:53 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 05:03:54PM +0200, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> > > commit 1b50f956c8fe9082bdee4a9cfd798149c52f7043 upstream.
> > >
> > > We used to access the dtb via its linear mapping address but now that the
> > > dtb early mapping was moved in the fixmap region, we can keep using this
> > > address since it is present in swapper_pg_dir, and remove the dtb
> > > relocation.
> > >
> > > Note that the relocation was wrong anyway since early_memremap() is
> > > restricted to 256K whereas the maximum fdt size is 2MB.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
> > > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.2.x
> >
> > You dropped everyone else's s-o-b for this patch, why?
> 
> Sorry for that, I'll fix it. Should I add the s-o-b even for the
> patches that I had to adapt?

Yes, you _have_ to do that :)

thanks,

greg k-h