From: jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch•com (Jason Gunthorpe)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] arm64: Add LOAD_OFFSET symbol for linker scripts
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:31:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131214003115.GI12904@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386980430.1002.96.camel@smoke>
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:20:30PM -0800, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > Can you be more specific about why we need this please? We don't seem to use
> > this on ARM, and I can't really think of a sensible value to define it as,
> > either. PAGE_OFFSET is a virtual address, which doesn't make much sense to
> > me, but perhaps I'm missing something.
>
> As I mentioned before, LOAD_OFFSET defaults to zero if it is not defined by the
> arch, so our arm64 vmlinux files currently have their paddr's equal to their
> vaddr's, so something like 0xffffffc000080000.
FWIW, I posted a similar patch for ARM32 last year:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/30/145
We are using it here to convey to desired load address to the boot
loader. My patch makes LOAD_OFFSET equal to PLAT_PHYS_OFFSET for
non-relocatable kernels, 0 otherwise.
If ARM64 takes Geoffs changes I can resend my patch for ARM32.
Regards,
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-14 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-12 20:39 [PATCH 0/5] a few small fixups for arm64 Geoff Levand
2013-12-12 20:39 ` [PATCH 1/5] arm64: Fix __data_loc value Geoff Levand
2013-12-13 17:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-12-13 18:17 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-12-14 0:20 ` Geoff Levand
2013-12-12 20:39 ` [PATCH 3/5] arm64: Fix include header order in vmlinux.lds.S Geoff Levand
2013-12-12 20:39 ` [PATCH 4/5] arm64: Add missing AT() macros to vmlinux.lds.S Geoff Levand
2013-12-13 16:49 ` Will Deacon
2013-12-14 0:20 ` Geoff Levand
2013-12-12 20:39 ` [PATCH 5/5] arm64: Add LOAD_OFFSET symbol for linker scripts Geoff Levand
2013-12-13 16:45 ` Will Deacon
2013-12-14 0:20 ` Geoff Levand
2013-12-14 0:31 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2013-12-16 17:29 ` Will Deacon
2013-12-17 0:21 ` Geoff Levand
2013-12-12 20:39 ` [PATCH 2/5] arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine Geoff Levand
2013-12-13 16:46 ` Will Deacon
2013-12-17 0:20 ` Geoff Levand
2013-12-14 0:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] arm64: Remove unused __data_loc variable Geoff Levand
2013-12-20 12:05 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-12-17 0:19 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine Geoff Levand
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