[PATCH v3 0/4] ARM: pxa: Fix out of vmalloc space bug

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Thu Apr 10 17:14:02 PDT 2014


On Wednesday 09 April 2014 15:05:26 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > (Resending due to a typo in an e-mail address that caused LAKML to reject
> > the mails. Sorry about the noise.)
> > 
> > This patch set reworks Ezequiel Garcia's previous fix [1] of an out of
> > vmalloc space bug on PXA2[57]x platforms caused by an attempt to map the
> > start of physical uncached outside of the vmalloc space.
> > 
> > This first three patches perform a couple of cleanups, and the last patch
> > fixes the problem. I've decided to map the memory at address 0xfe000000 to
> > minimize changes to the code, but this causes a bit of fragmentation of
> > vmalloc space. I could map it to the very end of vmalloc space
> > (0xfef00000)
> > instead if preferred, which would involve replacing a mov by an ldr in
> > pxa2[57]x_finish_suspend and pm_enter_standby_start.
> > 
> > I've tested the patch set on a PXA270-based system.
> 
> For those patches:
> 
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>

Thank you.

MAINTAINERS lists three maintainers for the PXA architecture, and two git 
trees that seem to be either dead or even deleted. Who picks up patches for 
PXA ? Should I send a pull request ?

> > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/28/474
> > 
> > Ezequiel Garcia (1):
> >   ARM: pxa: Move iotable mapping inside vmalloc region
> > 
> > Laurent Pinchart (3):
> >   ARM: pxa: Don't hardcode addresses and size in map_desc tables
> >   ARM: pxa: Move UNCACHED_PHYS_0 mapping from generic.c to pxa2[57]x.c
> >   ARM: pxa: pxa27x: Don't map IMEMC region statically
> >  
> >  arch/arm/mach-pxa/generic.c               | 11 +++--------
> >  arch/arm/mach-pxa/include/mach/hardware.h |  4 ++--
> >  arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa25x.c                |  7 ++++++-
> >  arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa27x.c                | 10 +++++-----
> >  arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa3xx.c                |  2 +-
> >  5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart




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