[PATCH] riscv: Don't use hugepage mappings for vmemmap if it's not supported
Nam Cao
namcao at linutronix.de
Wed May 8 11:46:49 PDT 2024
On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 08:22:43PM +0200, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> Hi Nam,
Hi Alex,
> > Commit ff172d4818ad ("riscv: Use hugepage mappings for vmemmap") broke XIP
> > kernel, because huge pages are not supported on XIP kernel.
>
> I don't understand why XIP kernels can't support huge vmalloc mappings,
Me neither.
> so I
> think the right fix would be to enable such mappings on XIP. WDYT?
I agree that is the ideal solution. But I don't want to send any new
feature to the stable trees (stable folks may even reject such patch).
So I intend that to be in another patch.
Best regards,
Nam
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