[GIT PULL v2] nommu fixes for 3.17-rc1

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Fri Jul 11 00:30:54 PDT 2014


Hi Russell,

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 11:41:59AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello Russell,
> 
> I updated my tag to pull to not include the commit that drops ARM740T,
> ARM940T and ARM946E-S because of Arnd's concerns. Also the two cleanups
> that depended on this one are dropped.
> 
> (As before) I picked -rc3 as base because 1c2f87c22566..6980c3e2514e~ is
> broken on nommu. 
> 
> The following changes since commit 4c834452aad01531db949414f94f817a86348d59:
> 
>   Linux 3.16-rc3 (2014-06-29 14:11:36 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.pengutronix.de/git/ukl/linux.git tags/nommu-for-rmk
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 83de911cf897a4317147dd9cb379378c2c4abf4c:
> 
>   ARM: make user_addr_max more robust (2014-07-01 11:12:09 +0200)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Two different fixes for the same problem making some ARM nommu configurations
> not boot since 3.6-rc1. The problem is that user_addr_max returned the biggest
> available RAM address which makes some copy_from_user variants fail to read
> from XIP memory.
> 
> Even in the presence of one of the two fixes the other still makes sense, so
> both patches are included here.
> 
> This problem was the last one preventing efm32 boot to a prompt with mainline.
You neither commented nor pulled this request (at least I didn't find it
in your repository). Is it still on your radar?

Best regards
Uwe

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