[PATCH v3] arm: Fix memory attribute inconsistencies when using fixmap

Jon Medhurst (Tixy) tixy at linaro.org
Tue Apr 4 09:01:43 PDT 2017


On Tue, 2017-04-04 at 10:10 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 4 April 2017 at 09:48, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <tixy at linaro.org> wrote:
[...]
> > I tested this change with kprobes tests on TC2 (the setup that showed
> > the original bug) and compile tested for a nommu device (I will boot
> > test that in a bit as that's not quick to setup).

The nommu device (ARM MPS2) boots OK

> > 
> > Also, with this patch we can now make early_paging_init() static now,
> > and remove the extern...

[...]

> Good point. If everything checks out, we should fold that in when
> submitting it to the patch tracker.

I delayed a little in case Russell had comments about the changes, but
I've now submitted the patch...
http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=8667/2

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Tixy



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