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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 2/3] arm64: support initrd outside kernel linear map
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 10:40:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151008094055.GC32532@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FC378C09-F140-4A62-9FFA-09293E65E866@gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 05:18:14PM +0800, yalin wang wrote:
> is it also possible to implement it on ARM platforms?
> ARM64 platform dona??t have HIGH_MEM zone .
> but ARM platform have .
> i remember boot loader must put init rd  into low memory region,
> so if some boot loader put init rd into HIGH men zone
> we can also relocate it to low men region ?
> then boot loader dona??t need care about this ,
> and since vmalloc= boot option will change HIGH mem region size,
> if we can relocate init rd , boot loader dona??t need care about init rd load address,
> when change vmalloc= boot options .

I'd be more inclined to say yes if the kernel wasn't buggering around
passing virtual addresses (initrd_start) of the initrd image around,
but instead used a physical address.  initrd_start must be a lowmem
address.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-08  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-17 17:01 [PATCH V4 0/3] mm: Add generic copy from early unmapped RAM Mark Salter
2015-08-17 17:01 ` [PATCH V4 1/3] mm: add utility for early copy from unmapped ram Mark Salter
2015-08-17 17:01 ` [PATCH V4 2/3] arm64: support initrd outside kernel linear map Mark Salter
2015-08-18  8:56   ` Will Deacon
2015-09-08 11:31   ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-06 17:11     ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-06 17:16       ` Mark Salter
2015-10-08  8:49         ` Christoffer Dall
2015-10-08  9:18           ` yalin wang
2015-10-08  9:40             ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2015-08-17 17:01 ` [PATCH V4 3/3] x86: use generic early mem copy Mark Salter

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