Re: [PATCH v4] ARM: early fixmap support for earlycon

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Tue Jun 16 2015 - 19:23:12 EST


On 06/16/2015 02:51 PM, Stefan Agner wrote:
> Add early fixmap support, initially to support permanent, fixed
> mapping support for early console. A temporary, early pte is
> created which is migrated to a permanent mapping in paging_init.
> This is also needed since the attributes may change as the memory
> types are initialized. The 3MiB range of fixmap spans two pte
> tables, but currently only one pte is created for early fixmap
> support.
>
> Re-add FIX_KMAP_BEGIN to the index calculation in highmem.c since
> the index for kmap does not start at zero anymore. This reverts
> 4221e2e6b316 ("ARM: 8031/1: fixmap: remove FIX_KMAP_BEGIN and
> FIX_KMAP_END") to some extent.
>
> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
>

Works on msm_serial.

Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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