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

[Olof Johansson]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Hi Olof,
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 03:09:46PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
>>> 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)?
>
> These configs indeed never worked before.
>
> However,
>
> commit 25362dc496edaf17f714c0fecd8b3eb79670207b
> Author: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> Date:   Tue Jan 26 01:19:36 2016 +0100
>
>     ARM: 8501/1: mm: flip priority of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
>
> in arm/for-next will enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA by default.
>
> Not having the fixes in v4.5 means that if Russell's tree is merged
> into mainline
> for v4.6 before arm-soc, it will cause regressions and bisection issues.

Ok, either way there'll be windows in which bisect will fail since the
changes are on independent branches.

Based on that, and looking at the patches, I'll pick it up now for fixes.


-Olof