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SubjectRe: [PATCH] efi/arm: fix allocation failure when reserving the kernel base
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 14:56, Russell King - ARM Linux admin
<linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 05:38:54AM +0000, Chester Lin wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> > index f3ce34113f89..909b11ba48d8 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> > @@ -1184,6 +1184,9 @@ void __init adjust_lowmem_bounds(void)
> > phys_addr_t block_start = reg->base;
> > phys_addr_t block_end = reg->base + reg->size;
> >
> > + if (memblock_is_nomap(reg))
> > + continue;
> > +
> > if (reg->base < vmalloc_limit) {
> > if (block_end > lowmem_limit)
> > /*
>
> I think this hunk is sane - if the memory is marked nomap, then it isn't
> available for the kernel's use, so as far as calculating where the
> lowmem/highmem boundary is, it effectively doesn't exist and should be
> skipped.
>

I agree.

Chester, could you explain what you need beyond this change (and my
EFI stub change involving TEXT_OFFSET) to make things work on the
RPi2?

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