since when does ARM map the kernel memory in sections?

[Peter Wächtler]

Am Dienstag, 12. April 2011, 21:11:59 schrieb Colin Cross:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Peter Wächtler <pwaechtler at mac.com> wrote:
> > Hello Linux ARM developers,
> > 
> > did the ARM Linux 2.6 kernel map the kernel memory in pages in the past?
> > Or was the memory always mapped in sections?
> > 
> > I still have to chase a potential memory corruption. The rootfs is
> > located on a SDcard and gets corrupted even when the filesystem test
> > programs write to different partitions.
> > The test scenario includes several dozen or even hundreds of warm and
> > cold boot sequences, file system write tests with sudden soft resets.
> > It's a large embedded project with a lot of drivers and the fact that
> > always the rootfs and often the superblock gets damaged let me think of
> > a memory corruption.
> 
> Gary King posted some patches a while ago that switched the kernel
> back to page mappings, so he could modify attributes on some pages to
> be non-cacheable.  The patches were not accepted, but you can probably
> dig them up for testing.

Thanx for the tip. I already found the patch and applied it. Some probs on 
config but not tested yet...

   Peter