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From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To: Alexander A Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>,
	linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: reserve the memblock right after the kernel
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2020 10:40:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201107094028.GA4918@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201106141001.57637-1-alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 03:10:01PM +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.

as this special for Octeon how about added the memblock_reserve
in octen specific code ?

Thomas.

-- 
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
good idea.                                                [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-07 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-06 14:10 [PATCH] MIPS: reserve the memblock right after the kernel Alexander A Sverdlin
2020-11-07  9:40 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2020-11-09 10:34   ` Alexander Sverdlin
2020-11-09 11:08     ` Alexander Sverdlin
2020-11-10  9:55     ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-11-10 10:29       ` Alexander Sverdlin
2020-11-11 14:52         ` Serge Semin
2020-11-13  2:30           ` Jiaxun Yang
2020-11-13  3:28             ` Jinyang He
2020-11-13  3:49               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-11-13 12:29             ` Alexander Sverdlin
2020-11-13 12:56             ` Alexander Sverdlin
2020-11-13  9:17           ` Alexander Sverdlin
2020-11-13 13:09             ` Alexander Sverdlin
2020-11-16 22:31               ` Serge Semin
2020-11-17  9:41                 ` Alexander Sverdlin

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