[PATCH for-v4.2 1/4] of/fdt: split off FDT self reservation from memreserve processing

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:36:28PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 1 June 2015 at 19:33, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 01:40:31PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> This splits off the reservation of the memory occupied by the FDT
> >> binary itself from the processing of the memory reservations it
> >> contains. This is necessary because the physical address of the FDT,
> >> which is needed to perform the reservation, may not be known to the
> >> FDT driver core, i.e., it may be mapped outside the linear direct
> >> mapping, in which case __pa() returns a bogus value.
> >>
> >> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> >> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> >> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> >> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> >> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> >> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm/mm/init.c         |  1 +
> >>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c       |  1 +
> >>  arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c |  1 +
> >>  drivers/of/fdt.c           | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
> >>  include/linux/of_fdt.h     |  2 ++
> >>  5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > I'm happy to take this patch (already acked by the DT maintainers)
> > through the arm64 tree but it would be good to have an ack from the arch
> > maintainers as well (i.e. Russell, Ben, Paul).
> 
> OK, fair enough,
> 
> @Ben, Paul
> @Russell
> 
> Could you please indicate whether or not you have any objections to this patch?

I'm going to push this patch into -next via the arm64 tree. If there are
objections before the merging window, please let me know (looking at the
previous commits adding early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem(), they were
only acked by the DT maintainers).

I merged this series of 4 patches.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin