Re: [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: Don't round up kernel sections size for memblock_add()

[Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 01:36:48PM +0100, Alexander A Sverdlin wrote:
> From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
> 
> Linux doesn't own the memory immediately after the kernel image. On Octeon
> bootloader places a shared structure right close after the kernel _end,
> refer to "struct cvmx_bootinfo *octeon_bootinfo" in cavium-octeon/setup.c.
> 
> If check_kernel_sections_mem() rounds the PFNs up, first memblock_alloc()
> inside early_init_dt_alloc_memory_arch() <= device_tree_init() returns
> memory block overlapping with the above octeon_bootinfo structure, which
> is being overwritten afterwards.
> 
> Fixes: a94e4f24ec83 ("MIPS: init: Drop boot_mem_map")
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
> ---
>  arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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