[PATCH] common: bootm: support locating kernel in FIT image in zero page

Michael Tretter m.tretter at pengutronix.de
Fri Jul 21 00:03:32 PDT 2023


On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 12:02:48 +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> Since commit 7e2f6a1ffd64 ("uimage: disable zero page when loading to
> SDRAM at address 0x0"), we allow locating images loaded from files at
> address zero if that's within the SDRAM. This only applied to images
> loaded with file_to_sdram() and images that were already in RAM were
> still not allowed to overlap the zero page.
> 
> Fix this by doing in bootm_load_os() as was done in file_to_sdram(),
> namely, disabling zero page trapping for the duration of the memcpy.
> We need no further zero page handling afterwards, because kernel is
> booted after paging is disabled.
> 
> Cc: Michael Tretter <m.tretter at pengutronix.de>
> Reported-by: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar at pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Michael Tretter <m.tretter at pengutronix.de>

> ---
>  common/bootm.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/bootm.c b/common/bootm.c
> index 791d6b8fbbf1..4845c40958ae 100644
> --- a/common/bootm.c
> +++ b/common/bootm.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>  #include <linux/stat.h>
>  #include <magicvar.h>
>  #include <uncompress.h>
> +#include <zero_page.h>
>  
>  static LIST_HEAD(handler_list);
>  
> @@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ int bootm_load_os(struct image_data *data, unsigned long load_address)
>  				(unsigned long long)load_address + kernel_size - 1);
>  			return -ENOMEM;
>  		}
> -		memcpy((void *)load_address, kernel, kernel_size);
> +		zero_page_memcpy((void *)load_address, kernel, kernel_size);
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 
> 



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