commit b3a977b224 {ARM: Better virt_to_page() handling} breaks Keystone boot

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Fri Apr 11 17:38:30 PDT 2014


On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 08:13:23PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> > 
> > > Russell,
> > > 
> > > The subject commit breaks Keystone boot with higher address space enabled.
> > > I haven't debugged it further but reverting that patch makes it boot again.
> > > 
> > > I will further look at it on Monday, but thought of letting you know.
> > 
> > See my comment at the bottom of this email which might be the cause:
> > 
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/312721
> 
> I still don't see the relevance.  Nothing touches __pv_phys_offset
> after we've booted.  From what I can see, this stuff remains incomplete
> for Keystone.

It certainly looks incomplete, and some out-of-tree might need adjusting 
as mentioned before.


Nicolas



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