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From: arnd@arndb•de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v15 08/12] ARM: config: append lpae configuration
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:41:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201407311641.02462.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD6h2NT5BP4Rmz+vfTLSsw19xCNSfXE6wwAhr1Fcrd9VuyXOeg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday 31 July 2014, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> Maybe I didn't express this well. Let's check the memory layout in hip04.
> 
> <0x00000000-10000000, 0x00000000-c0000000> & <0x00000004-0xc0000000,
> 0x00000003-40000000> are two memory regions.
> 
> These memory address is 64-bit. When ARM_LPAE is disabled,
> memblock_add() parses memory base address & size with 32-bit. Since
> ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is highly depend on ARM_LPAE.
> 
> Then these two memory regions become <0x10000000, 0xc0000000> &
> <0xc0000000, 0xffffffff>. Lots of IO space are in <0xe0000000,
> 0xefffffff>. So memory space conflicts when ARM_LPAE is disabled.
> Kernel panic will come since it believes IO space is memory.
> 
> Only two solutions are available in below.
> 1. Use hip04_defconfig to declare ARM_LPAE.
> 2. Use hi3xxx_defconfig, and only declare 2.9GB memory in DTS file
> without ARM_LPAE.
> 
> I think solution #1 is better. What's your opinion?
> 

I think it's a bug in the DT parsing code if incorrect memory
regions get added. It's supposed to parse the memory nodes using
"long enough" (u64 or arbitrary-length) data types and then
skip every range that doesn't fit into phys_addr_t.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-31 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-28 13:57 [PATCH v15 00/12] enable Hisilicon HiP04 Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-28 13:57 ` [PATCH v15 01/12] irq: gic: support hip04 gic Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-28 17:38   ` Marc Zyngier
2014-07-29 13:05     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-29 13:19       ` Will Deacon
2014-07-29 13:41       ` Marc Zyngier
2014-07-28 13:57 ` [PATCH v15 02/12] ARM: mcpm: support 4 clusters Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-28 13:57 ` [PATCH v15 03/12] ARM: hisi: enable MCPM implementation Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-28 13:57 ` [PATCH v15 04/12] ARM: hisi: enable HiP04 Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-28 14:38   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-28 13:57 ` [PATCH v15 05/12] document: dt: add the binding on HiP04 Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-28 14:41   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-28 13:57 ` [PATCH v15 06/12] document: dt: add the binding on HiP04 clock Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-28 17:54   ` Mark Rutland
2014-07-29  2:25     ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-29  9:55       ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-29 10:40         ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-29 12:38       ` Mark Rutland
2014-07-28 13:57 ` [PATCH v15 07/12] ARM: dts: append hip04 dts Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-28 18:06   ` Mark Rutland
2014-07-29  2:44     ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-29  3:53       ` Olof Johansson
2014-07-29  4:00         ` Olof Johansson
2014-08-01 12:02           ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-29 10:58         ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-29 16:56           ` Olof Johansson
2014-07-29 11:12         ` Will Deacon
2014-07-29 11:32           ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-29 12:13             ` Will Deacon
2014-07-29 12:15               ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-29 12:22                 ` Will Deacon
2014-07-29 12:32       ` Mark Rutland
2014-07-29 17:01         ` Olof Johansson
2014-07-29 17:33           ` Mark Rutland
2014-07-30 11:26           ` Leif Lindholm
2014-07-28 13:57 ` [PATCH v15 08/12] ARM: config: append lpae configuration Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-29  4:05   ` Olof Johansson
2014-07-29 10:43     ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-31  1:01       ` Olof Johansson
2014-07-31  2:24         ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-31  3:55           ` Olof Johansson
2014-07-31  5:30             ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-31 14:41               ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-08-01 12:16                 ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-28 13:57 ` [PATCH v15 09/12] ARM: config: append hip04_defconfig Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-29  4:07   ` Olof Johansson
2014-07-28 13:57 ` [PATCH v15 10/12] ARM: hisi: enable erratum 798181 of A15 on HiP04 Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-29  4:08   ` Olof Johansson
2014-07-29 10:41     ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-28 13:57 ` [PATCH v15 11/12] virt: arm: support hip04 gic Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-28 18:00   ` Marc Zyngier
2014-07-29  2:31     ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-29  8:47       ` Marc Zyngier
2014-07-28 13:57 ` [PATCH v15 12/12] ARM: debug: add HiP04 debug uart Haojian Zhuang
2014-07-28 14:43 ` [PATCH v15 00/12] enable Hisilicon HiP04 Arnd Bergmann

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