From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 13:59:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] arm64: don't call early_*map() post paging_init() In-Reply-To: <1420551673-31416-1-git-send-email-leif.lindholm@linaro.org> References: <1420551673-31416-1-git-send-email-leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20150106135941.GA3484@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:41:11PM +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote: > This (tiny) series resolves a fairly serious problem with > early_ioremap/iounmap/memremap/memunmap on arm64. These functions > cannot safely be called after paging_init(), but the sanity check > was not triggering. > > As a result, a fixmap entry was incorrectly cleared during > early_initcalls on arm64 UEFI systems. > > 1/2 reworks the arm64 UEFI support code to not attempt these calls > and > 2/2 enables the sanity check > > Changes since v1: > - Rebased to v3.19-rc3 > - Added 'Fixes:' tags > - Reworked 1/2 to restore call to efi_setup_idmap() to the original > location in the boot process. Looks reasonable to me; do they need a CC stable, or is this not a problem that matters in practice? Will