[PATCH] riscv: Fix 32-bit RISC-V boot failure

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Thu Jul 8 06:29:26 PDT 2021


Hi Palmer,

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:20 AM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:08 AM Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2021/6/30 19:58, Bin Meng wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 11:21 AM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:28 AM Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> On 2021/6/28 9:15, Bin Meng wrote:
> > >>>> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 8:53 AM Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com> wrote:
> > >>>>> Hi, sorry for the mistake,the bug is fixed by
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20210602085517.127481-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com/
> > >>>> What are we on the patch you mentioned?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I don't see it applied in the linux/master.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Also there should be a "Fixes" tag and stable at vger.kernel.org cc'ed
> > >>>> because 32-bit is broken since v5.12.
> > >>> https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux/+/c9811e379b211c67ba29fb09d6f644dd44cfcff2
> > >>>
> > >>> it's on Palmer' riscv-next.
> > >> Not sure riscv-next is for which release? This is a regression and
> > >> should be on 5.13.
> > >>
> > >>> Hi Palmer, should I resend or could you help me to add the fixes tag?
> > > Your patch mixed 2 things (fix plus one feature) together, so it is
> > > not proper to back port your patch.
> >
> > "mem=" will change the range of memblock, so the fix part must be included.
> >
>
> Yes, so you can rebase the "mem=" changes on top of my patch.
>
> The practice is that we should not mix 2 things in one patch. I can
> imagine that you wanted to add "mem=" to RISC-V and suddenly found the
> existing logic was broken, so you sent one patch to do both.
>
> >
> > >
> > > Here is my 2 cents:
> > >
> > > 1. Drop your patch from riscv-next
> > > 2. Apply my patch as it is a simple fix to previous commit. This
> > > allows stable kernel to cherry-pick the fix to v5.12 and v5.13.
> > > 3. Rebase your patch against mine, and resend v2
> > >
> > > Let me know if this makes sense.
> >
> > It is not a big problem for me, but I have no right abourt riscv-next,
> >
> > let's wait Palmer's advise.
> >
>
> Sure. Palmer, let me know your thoughts.

Ping?

Regards,
Bin



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