From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] ARM: ux500: Enable HIGHMEM on all mop500 platforms Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:56:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20120731135614.GR6802@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1343741493-17671-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <1343741493-17671-10-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk (caramon.arm.linux.org.uk [78.32.30.218]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E90265D24 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:57:41 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1343741493-17671-10-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Lee Jones Cc: ola.o.lilja@stericsson.com, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linus.walleij@stericsson.com, arnd@arndb.de, broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, olalilja@yahoo.se, STEricsson_nomadik_linux@list.st.com, lrg@ti.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 02:31:30PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > The current kernel commandline for ux500 based devices includes > hard-coded allocations for things like mali and hwmem, which > actually run over lowmem. Here we enable highmem in order to > avoid memory corruption errors. Err what? highmem should make no difference if things are being done correctly. In other words, your patch description is too vague to understand what the problem is and why you have to force highmem on - and nothing should _require_ highmem.