[PATCH] MIPS: ralink: mt7621: do memory detection on KSEG1

Chuanhong Guo gch981213 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 16 20:06:09 PST 2022


Hi!

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 3:57 AM Thomas Bogendoerfer
<tsbogend at alpha.franken.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 08:13:44AM +0800, Chuanhong Guo wrote:
> > It's reported that current memory detection code occasionally detects
> > larger memory under some bootloaders.
> > Current memory detection code tests whether address space wraps around
> > on KSEG0, which is unreliable because it's cached.
> >
> > Rewrite memory size detection to perform the same test on KSEG1 instead.
> > While at it, this patch also does the following two things:
> > 1. use a fixed pattern instead of a random function pointer as the magic
> >    value.
> > 2. add an additional memory write and a second comparison as part of the
> >    test to prevent possible smaller memory detection result due to
> >    leftover values in memory.
> >
> > Fixes: 139c949f7f0a MIPS: ("ralink: mt7621: add memory detection support")
> > Reported-by: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra at gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Chuanhong Guo <gch981213 at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/mips/ralink/mt7621.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> >  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> applied to mips-fixes.

Oops.

As I mentioned in a previous mail, this patch has two cosmetic problems:
1. misplaced bracket in commit message "Fixes" tag
2. incorrect second test pattern: I meant to flip all the bits in the
first pattern,
   but I used "!" instead of "~". Any value will work just fine but it
looks weird
   to construct a zero using !MT7621_MEM_TEST_PATTERN.

Should I send a second patch to fix this patch or send a v2 of the
original patch?

-- 
Regards,
Chuanhong Guo



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