Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Nov 2020 10:40:28 +0100 | From | Thomas Bogendoerfer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MIPS: reserve the memblock right after the kernel |
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On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 03:10:01PM +0100, Alexander A Sverdlin wrote: > From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com> > > Linux doesn't own the memory immediately after the kernel image. On Octeon > bootloader places a shared structure right close after the kernel _end, > refer to "struct cvmx_bootinfo *octeon_bootinfo" in cavium-octeon/setup.c. > > If check_kernel_sections_mem() rounds the PFNs up, first memblock_alloc() > inside early_init_dt_alloc_memory_arch() <= device_tree_init() returns > memory block overlapping with the above octeon_bootinfo structure, which > is being overwritten afterwards.
as this special for Octeon how about added the memblock_reserve in octen specific code ?
Thomas.
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