From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: + add-a-kernel_address-that-works-for-data-too.patch added to -mm tree Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:31:57 +0100 Message-ID: <4B4822DD.2090406@linux.intel.com> References: <201001082354.o08Ns4iM021858@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:52137 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750782Ab0AIGcD (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jan 2010 01:32:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201001082354.o08Ns4iM021858@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, andi@firstfloor.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, sam@ravnborg.org akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------ > Subject: add a kernel_address() that works for data too > From: Andi Kleen > > Add a variant of kernel_text_address() that includes kernel data. > > Assumes kernel is _text ... _end - init section. True everywhere? As Russel pointed out that is broken on ARM XIP kernels currently. I'm looking at a fix for that. -Andi