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

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Fri Jul 11 04:00:47 PDT 2014


Hi Olof,

On Thursday 10 July 2014 09:56:32 Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > On 10 Apr 08:31 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > What ever happened to this?
> 
> Nothing, from the looks of it. I can apply them directly unless someone
> objects.
> 
> Laurent, care to rebase and send a fresh copy? cc arm at kernel.org.

Sure. Done.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart




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