[PATCH 2/2] ARM: OMAP4: Move the barrier memboclk_steal() as part of reserve callback

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Tue Feb 14 14:18:21 EST 2012


* Shilimkar, Santosh <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> [120214 02:58]:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 02:19:41PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> >> >From 4d1ea22985adfe458275b9ae3e00edc6e41a267f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
> >> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:59:51 +0530
> >> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP4: Move the barrier memboclk_steal() as
> >> part of reserve callback
> >>
> >> Commit 716a3dc{ARM: Add arm_memblock_steal() to allocate memory away
> >> from the kernel} introduced arm_memblock_steal() which lead to
> >> OMAP4_ERRATA_I688 to be broken and needed to be fixed.
> >
> > That is misleading.  Please don't attribute blame for this breakage to
> > that patch, which has nothing to do with introducing the breakage.  The
> > errata was broken right from the start.
> 
> That's right and I didn't mean that way.
> This was the same reason, first patch I just mentioned what was wrong
> in the code
> rather than mention of any commit.
> 
> Tony,
> Let me know if you want to add any commit history to the change since
> the issue was actually existing without 'arm_memblock_stea()' commit.
> I think, first change log was good enough from the fix point of view.

OK, makes sense. I'll apply it into fixes as is then.

Regards,

Tony



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