[PATCH 1/8] of/fdt: split off FDT self reservation from memreserve processing

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri May 22 03:35:42 PDT 2015


On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 08:41:53AM +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>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

For the arm64 part:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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