[PATCH -fixes v2 3/3] riscv: No need to relocate the dtb as it lies in the fixmap region

Palmer Dabbelt palmer at dabbelt.com
Thu Apr 13 18:17:00 PDT 2023


On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:33:45 PDT (-0700), Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 04:40:18PM +0200, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:56 PM Conor Dooley <conor at kernel.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 10:19:32AM +0200, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
>> > > We used to access the dtb via its linear mapping address but now that the
>> > > dtb early mapping was moved in the fixmap region, we can keep using this
>> > > address since it is present in swapper_pg_dir, and remove the dtb
>> > > relocation.
>> > >
>> > > Note that the relocation was wrong anyway since early_memremap() is
>> > > restricted to 256K whereas the maximum fdt size is 2MB.
>> >
>> > So, should this be marked as a fix, and backported along with 1/3?
>> 
>> Hmmm the whole series should be backported, it does not make sense to
>> move the dtb mapping and keep accessing it using its linear mapping
>> address since it could fail for the exact reason the relocation was
>> implemented in the first place and the relocation is wrong.
>> 
>> Maybe we should simply add a "Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org" on all the patches?
>
> Yup, although hopefully Palmer can handle that if nothing else needs
> changing.

The bots usually pick it up anyway, but in general I try and put the 
stable CC on there when I see stuff go by.  I actually missed it this 
time until seeing the comment, though...



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