Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64/efi: efistub: don't abort if base of DRAM is occupied

From: [email-masked] (Mark Rutland)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:35:28 +0100

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 06:10:57PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug, at 12:32:05PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:59:04AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > If we cannot relocate the kernel Image to its preferred offset of base of DRAM
> > > plus TEXT_OFFSET, instead relocate it to the lowest available 2 MB boundary plus
> > > TEXT_OFFSET. We may lose a bit of memory at the low end, but we can still
> > > proceed normally otherwise.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email-masked]>
> > > Acked-by: Mark Salter <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Mark Rutland <[email-masked]>
> 
> Ard, who's picking this up?

Will's already taken this into arm64/devel [1,2] with the intention of
waiting for v3.18 [3]. Per Leif's comment [4] that might have to be
bumped.

Will?

Mark.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git/commit/?h=devel
[2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git/commit/?h=devel&id=12f002aa8d96b90e6e37cc2b0d9a6a3cacdf8ef5
[3] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-August/279655.html
[4] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-August/279771.html