[PATCH v3 0/4] ARM: pxa: Fix out of vmalloc space bug

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Thu Apr 10 17:31:11 PDT 2014


On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 April 2014 15:05:26 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > (Resending due to a typo in an e-mail address that caused LAKML to reject
> > > the mails. Sorry about the noise.)
> > > 
> > > This patch set reworks Ezequiel Garcia's previous fix [1] of an out of
> > > vmalloc space bug on PXA2[57]x platforms caused by an attempt to map the
> > > start of physical uncached outside of the vmalloc space.
> > > 
> > > This first three patches perform a couple of cleanups, and the last patch
> > > fixes the problem. I've decided to map the memory at address 0xfe000000 to
> > > minimize changes to the code, but this causes a bit of fragmentation of
> > > vmalloc space. I could map it to the very end of vmalloc space
> > > (0xfef00000)
> > > instead if preferred, which would involve replacing a mov by an ldr in
> > > pxa2[57]x_finish_suspend and pm_enter_standby_start.
> > > 
> > > I've tested the patch set on a PXA270-based system.
> > 
> > For those patches:
> > 
> > Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> MAINTAINERS lists three maintainers for the PXA architecture, and two git 
> trees that seem to be either dead or even deleted. Who picks up patches for 
> PXA ? Should I send a pull request ?

If no one else answers, then just send a pull request to the ARM-SOC 
team (arm at kernel.org) and CC the linux-arm-kernel mailing list.


Nicolas



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