From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754522Ab2GaO3y (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:29:54 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:37192 "EHLO mail-ee0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754455Ab2GaO3v (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:29:51 -0400 Message-ID: <5017EBDC.6010005@linaro.org> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:29:48 +0100 From: Lee Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King - ARM Linux CC: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ola.o.lilja@stericsson.com, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linus.walleij@stericsson.com, arnd@arndb.de, broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, olalilja@yahoo.se, STEricsson_nomadik_linux@list.st.com, lrg@ti.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] ARM: ux500: Enable HIGHMEM on all mop500 platforms References: <1343741493-17671-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <1343741493-17671-10-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <20120731135614.GR6802@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120731135614.GR6802@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 31/07/12 14:56, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 02:31:30PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: >> The current kernel commandline for ux500 based devices includes >> hard-coded allocations for things like mali and hwmem, which >> actually run over lowmem. Here we enable highmem in order to >> avoid memory corruption errors. > > Err what? highmem should make no difference if things are being done > correctly. > > In other words, your patch description is too vague to understand what > the problem is and why you have to force highmem on - and nothing should > _require_ highmem. I think I must have misunderstood some advice which was recently given to me. I'll drop the patch. Thanks for reviewing. -- Lee Jones Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog