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From: mlangsdo@redhat.com (Mark Langsdorf)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/3] arm64 initrd mapping/relocation
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 15:39:57 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B1222D.3000604@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454435802-7604-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

On 02/02/2016 11:56 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> After discussing in linux-efi with Mark, and on #armlinux with Will, this is
> a proposal for dealing with initrd memory that is potentially not covered by
> the linear region.
>
> Note that this will look slightly differently when some of the KASLR work gets
> merged, but this should only affect the way we deal with the initrd if it sits
> outside of the linear region.
>
> Mostly intended for discussion, not tested at all.
>
> Ard Biesheuvel (3):
>    memblock: add routine to clear the MEMBLOCK_NOMAP flag for a region
>    arm64: add the initrd region to the linear mapping explicitly
>    arm64: remove the now unneeded relocate_initrd()

I discovered the original problem on AMD Seattle and these patches
fixed it for me.

Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@redhat.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-02 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-02 17:56 [RFC PATCH 0/3] arm64 initrd mapping/relocation Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-02 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] memblock: add routine to clear the MEMBLOCK_NOMAP flag for a region Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-02 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] arm64: add the initrd region to the linear mapping explicitly Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-02 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] arm64: remove the now unneeded relocate_initrd() Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] arm64 initrd mapping/relocation Will Deacon
2016-02-02 21:39   ` Mark Langsdorf
2016-02-03 14:22   ` Mark Salter
2016-02-03 14:26     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-08 16:17       ` Jeremy Linton
2016-02-02 21:39 ` Mark Langsdorf [this message]
2016-02-03  8:42   ` Ard Biesheuvel

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