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Re: [PATCH v2 05/25] powerpc/8xx: Fix vaddr for IMMR early remap

From Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 05/25] powerpc/8xx: Fix vaddr for IMMR early remap
Date 2015-10-08 14:40 +0200
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Le 29/09/2015 01:39, Scott Wood a écrit :
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 06:50:38PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> Memory: 124428K/131072K available (3748K kernel code, 188K rwdata,
>> 648K rodata, 508K init, 290K bss, 6644K reserved)
>> Kernel virtual memory layout:
>>    * 0xfffdf000..0xfffff000  : fixmap
>>    * 0xfde00000..0xfe000000  : consistent mem
>>    * 0xfddf6000..0xfde00000  : early ioremap
>>    * 0xc9000000..0xfddf6000  : vmalloc & ioremap
>> SLUB: HWalign=16, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
>>
>> Mapping IMMR 1:1 is just wrong because it may overlap with another
>> area. On most mpc8xx boards it is OK because IMMR is set to
>> 0xff000000 but for instance on EP88xC board, IMMR is at 0xfa200000
>> which overlaps with VM ioremap area
>>
>> This patch fixes the virtual address for remapping IMMR to 0xff000000,
>> regardless of the value of IMMR.
>>
>> The size of IMMR area is 256kbytes (CPM at offset 0, security engine
>> at offset 128) so 512kbytes is enough and allows to handle the EP88xC
>> case (which is not 8Mbytes but only 2Mbytes aligned) the same way.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
> Instead of hardcoding 0xff000000, can you use asm/fixmap.h to allocate a
> virtual address at compile time?
>
>
Yes good idea, but in asm/fixmap.h FIX_XXXX constants are defined as enums.
Is there a way to use them in head_8xx.S ?

Christophe
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Re: [PATCH v2 05/25] powerpc/8xx: Fix vaddr for IMMR early remap Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> - 2015-10-08 14:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 05/25] powerpc/8xx: Fix vaddr for IMMR early remap Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> - 2015-10-08 21:20 +0200

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