[PATCH v2] ARM: decompress: Use /memreserve/ DTS nodes when validating memory

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Tue Sep 7 08:09:46 PDT 2021


On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 4:57 PM Bert Vermeulen <bert at biot.com> wrote:
> If the bootloader needs the start of memory to be preserved, for example
> because it dropped the Trusted Firmware blob there, this chunk of memory
> shouldn't be used by the kernel.
>
> To avoid adding yet another SoC-specific text offset to arch/arm/Makefile,
> this patch allows for a /memreserve/ entry in the DTS to mark off the
> memory chunk instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bert Vermeulen <bert at biot.com>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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