[GIT PULL] Renesas ARM Based SoC Fixes for v4.5

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Wed Feb 24 00:08:03 PST 2016


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 03:09:46PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> Hi Olof, Hi Kevin, Hi Arnd,
> 
> Please consider these Renesas ARM based SoC fixes for v4.5.
> 
> This pull request is comprised of patches from Geert Uytterhoeven to avoid
> writing to .text.
> 
> * "ARM: shmobile: Move shmobile_scu_base from .text to .bss"
> 
>   Resolves a problem for XIP kernels as writing to .text is not allowed.
>   For non-XIP kernels a problem does not manifst as the pages are mapped
>   read-only during late kernel startup.
> 
> * The remaining patches resolve a kernel-crash that occurs during system
>   suspend for CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y kernels.
> 
> 
> The following changes since commit 92e963f50fc74041b5e9e744c330dca48e04f08d:
> 
>   Linux 4.5-rc1 (2016-01-24 13:06:47 -0800)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas.git tags/renesas-soc-fixes-for-v4.5
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 901c5ffaaed117a38be9d0c29247c4888d6c8636:
> 
>   ARM: shmobile: Remove shmobile_boot_arg (2016-02-17 18:27:21 +0900)

Hi Simon, Geert,

I don't think any of these fixes are for regressions, are they? I.e. this is
work to enable configs that never used to work (XIP, CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA)?


-Olof




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