[PATCH 4/9] ARM: zImage: the page table memory must be considered before relocation

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Thu Apr 28 18:50:19 EDT 2011


From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>

For correctness, the initial page table located right before the
decompressed kernel should be considered when determining if relocation
is required.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>
Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
index 6dae179..4c50490 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
@@ -216,9 +216,10 @@ restart:	adr	r0, LC0
  *   r9  = size of decompressed image
  *   r10 = end of this image, including  bss/stack/malloc space if non XIP
  * We basically want:
- *   r4 >= r10 -> OK
+ *   r4 - 16k page directory >= r10 -> OK
  *   r4 + image length <= current position (pc) -> OK
  */
+		add	r10, r10, #16384
 		cmp	r4, r10
 		bhs	wont_overwrite
 		add	r10, r4, r9
-- 
1.7.4




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