[PATCH v5sub1 7/8] arm64: move kernel image to base of vmalloc area

[Catalin Marinas]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:10:00AM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> On 17/02/16 09:15, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> > On 02/16/2016 07:42 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 06:36:36PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> >>> You are right. 
> >>> So we should write 'shadow_start' instead of 'i'.
> >>
> >> FWIW with the below patch I don't see any "screwed shadow mapping"
> >> warnings on my board, and still later see a tonne of KASAN splats in the
> >> scheduler.
> >>
> > 
> > It is possible that I missed something, but I think it means that shadow is alright.
> > 
> > I wonder whether this happens on 4.4. If not, than something in 4.5-rc1 caused this, and the obvious suspect
> > here is irq stack.
> 
> This quick hack will prevent ever switching to the irq stack:
> 
> ---------------------------%<---------------------------
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> index 1f7f5a2b61bf..83ae736429b6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ alternative_endif
>          */
>         and     x25, x19, #~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)
>         cmp     x25, tsk
> -       b.ne    9998f
> +       b       9998f
> 
>         this_cpu_ptr irq_stack, x25, x26
>         mov     x26, #IRQ_STACK_START_SP

Thanks James. I'll give it a try.

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Catalin