[PATCH 1/3] ARM: Define KERNEL_START and KERNEL_END

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 14:47:01 PST 2016


On 12/06/2016 02:43 PM, Chris Brandt wrote:
> On 12/6/2016, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
>> index 4001dd15818d..18ef688a796e 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
>> @@ -1437,12 +1437,8 @@ static void __init kmap_init(void)
>>  static void __init map_lowmem(void)
>>  {
>>  	struct memblock_region *reg;
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
>> -	phys_addr_t kernel_x_start = round_down(__pa(_sdata), SECTION_SIZE);
>> -#else
>> -	phys_addr_t kernel_x_start = round_down(__pa(_stext), SECTION_SIZE);
>> -#endif
>> -	phys_addr_t kernel_x_end = round_up(__pa(__init_end), SECTION_SIZE);
>> +	phys_addr_t kernel_x_start = round_down(__pa(KERNEL_START),
>> SECTION_SIZE);
>> +	phys_addr_t kernel_x_end = round_down(__pa(_end), SECTION_SIZE);
> 
> Why are you changing the end of executable kernel (hence the 'x' in
> kernel_x_end) from __init_end to _end which basically maps the entire
> kernel image including text and data?

That's a typo, was not intentional thanks for spotting it.
-- 
Florian



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