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

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Thu Jul 10 09:56:32 PDT 2014


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Ezequiel Garcia
<ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On 10 Apr 08:31 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>>
>> > 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 ?
>>
>> If no one else answers, then just send a pull request to the ARM-SOC
>> team (arm at kernel.org) and CC the linux-arm-kernel mailing list.
>>
>
> What ever happened to this?

Nothing, from the looks of it. I can apply them directly unless someone objects.

Laurent, care to rebase and send a fresh copy? cc arm at kernel.org.


-Olof



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