[PATCH 3/3] ARM: Map the lowmem and kernel separately

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Wed Aug 4 06:12:49 PDT 2021


Thanks so much for explaining this Russell!

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 12:37 PM Russell King (Oracle)
<linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:

> My guess would be the problem is that kernel_sec_start and
> kernel_sec_end are not being adjusted, and are still pointing at
> the low physical addresses rather than the high ones.
> Consequently, kernel_x_start and kernel_nx_end points at the low phys
> space, but kernel_x_end and kernel_nx_start points to the high phys
> space.

I bet this is right, I will make a patch for Nishanth to test!

Thanks a *lot* for your elaborate explanation.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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