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From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 04/11] arm64: use fixmap region for permanent FDT mapping
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:26:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150413162646.GK4076@leverpostej> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu-w=BnoHT3chHXurZ0x-U71SbQo0jZCYg5pEPC4GeC59Q@mail.gmail.com>

> I was wondering: this code now always maps the full 4 MB, also on 64k
> pages, even if in the majority of cases, the actual FDT is much
> smaller. Do you think there is a downside to that?

The two cases I can think of as problematic are when the FDT is in the
last 2M of RAM, or in a 2M region immediately before some carveout which
won't use MT_NORMAL attributes.

We could solve those by only mapping however many 2M chunks are
necessary, or we could keep the requirement that it fits within a
naturally-aligned 2M region for now.

I don't see that this should yield significant problems otherwise.

Mark.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-13 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-10 13:53 [PATCH v3 00/11] arm64: update/clarify/relax Image and FDT placement rules Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-10 13:53 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] arm64: reduce ID map to a single page Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-13 12:53   ` Mark Rutland
2015-04-13 12:56     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-10 13:53 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] arm64: drop sleep_idmap_phys and clean up cpu_resume() Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-10 13:53 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] of/fdt: split off FDT self reservation from memreserve processing Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-10 13:53 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] arm64: use fixmap region for permanent FDT mapping Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-13 15:02   ` Mark Rutland
2015-04-13 15:15     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-13 15:26       ` Mark Rutland
2015-04-13 15:45         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-13 16:26           ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2015-04-14  7:44             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-14  8:57               ` Mark Rutland
2015-04-10 13:53 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] arm64/efi: adapt to relaxed FDT placement requirements Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-13 16:20   ` Mark Rutland
2015-04-13 16:25     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-13 16:35       ` Mark Rutland
2015-04-13 16:36         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-10 13:53 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] arm64: implement our own early_init_dt_add_memory_arch() Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-10 13:53 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] arm64: fixmap: allow init before linear mapping is set up Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-14 10:47   ` Mark Rutland
2015-04-14 11:02     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-14 13:41       ` Mark Rutland
2015-04-10 13:53 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] arm64: mm: explicitly bootstrap the linear mapping Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-10 13:53 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] arm64: move kernel mapping out of linear region Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-10 13:53 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] arm64: allow kernel Image to be loaded anywhere in physical memory Ard Biesheuvel
2015-04-14 14:36   ` Mark Rutland
2015-04-10 13:53 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] arm64/efi: adapt to relaxed kernel Image placement requirements Ard Biesheuvel

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