[PATCH] ARM: Fix relocation if image end past uncompressed kernel end

[Tony Lindgren]

* Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org> [110421 20:20]:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Otherwise we end up overwriting ourselves. This fixes booting
> > > > on n900 after commit 6d7d0ae51574943bf571d269da3243257a2d15db
> > > > (ARM: 6750/1: improvements to compressed/head.S).
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
> > > 
> > > I don't understand why this is needed.  The copy loop is explicitly 
> > > copying from the end going backward exactly to cope with this 
> > > possibility.
> > 
> > I think your patch is 1) unneeded (see the copy loop code and the 
> > comment before it), and 2) simply hiding the real bug.

Yes so it seems, but it also seems that there is still something else wrong..

> > I just need to modify the code in compressed/misc.c slightly for the 
> > lzma decompressor to start or stop working randomly.  It seems that this 
> > code might be sensitive to slight displacement in memory caused by 
> > modifications to totally unrelated code.  I'm still trying to track this 
> > down.
> 
> I found the bugger.  The problem was a bad stack alignment.

.. as this patch won't solve the n900 booting problem with zImage.
With LZMA I'm still also getting "LZMA data is corrupt".

Regards,

Tony