Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/5] mm: ARM nobootmem and few dma_mask fixes

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 05:48:09PM -0400, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> The series is an attempt to move ARM port to NO_BOOTMEM. As discussed
> on list NO_BOOTMEM move needed updates to max*pfn meaning to be maximum
> PFNs but that breaks the dma_mask for few block layer drivers since
> ARM start of physical memory is not PFN0 unlike most of the architectures.
> Some more read on it is here:
> 	http://lwn.net/Articles/543408/
> 	http://lwn.net/Articles/543424/
> 
> To address this issue, we introduce generic dma_max_pfn() helper which
> can be overridden from the architectures.
> 	
> Another intention behind move to nobootmem is also to convert ARM to
> switch to memblock and getting rid of bootmem allocator dependency which
> don't work for LPAE machines which has physical memory starting beyond
> 4 GB boundary. It needs changes to core kernel and also a new memblock
> API. More on this can be found here:
> 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/29/77
> 
> I have been trying to cook up these patches with kind help from Russell
> and we know series don't solve all the dma_mask bad assumptions. But at
> least I am hoping that it can get the ball rolling.	
> 
> Comments/testing help is welcome !!

As this is related to some of the cleanup of dma_mask which I've been
doing, I think it may make sense to roll this into one tree.  Any
objection to that?

Can we get any acks on this stuff from Jens and Jejb etc - especially
for the bits which touch block/ and for the scsi bits as these are
touching other subsystems.  (oddly, linux-scsi wasn't on the original
mail for this series summary.)