[PATCH v2] arm: Fix memory attribute inconsistencies when using fixmap

Jon Medhurst (Tixy) tixy at linaro.org
Wed Mar 22 08:26:28 PDT 2017


On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 12:13 +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 22 March 2017 at 09:46, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <tixy at linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 19:00 +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> > > 
> > > UEFI boot and earlycon both still work for me, so
> > > 
> > > Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

I forgot to say thanks earlier, so thanks! :-)

> > > It looks like nommu should be unaffected, but it is worth giving it a
> > > spin as well
> > 
> > I did build test a couple of nommu platforms. I'll try and work out how
> > to get Linux on the only nommu hardware I have (ARM's MPS2) but if that
> > kernel doesn't work before my applying my changes I'm not going to
> > debug, I've opened enough cans of worms for now.
> > 

After much faffing around I got MPS2 booting a Linux kernel, and
somewhat to my surprise it seems to boot fine, all the way up to
panicking because it didn't find an init. This was with $subject patch.

-- 
Tixy



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