Re: [PATCH -next 0/3] replace open coded VA->PA calculation

[cuigaosheng]

> I could apply them directly with the maintainer Acks, but I don't understand
> the significance of you sending them now. Is something broken without the
> three patches? Are these the only ones missing from Ard's original series,
> or is this preparation? Would you expect the patches to get backported to
> stable kernels?

Thanks for your reply.

This is preparation work for arm32 kaslr,and I want to continue to improve
the solution based on the work of Ard. These patches are relatively
independent, so I submit these patches first.

Gaosheng.

在 2021/12/20 23:39, Arnd Bergmann 写道:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 9:58 AM Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > These patches replace an open coded calculation to obtain the physical
> > address of a far symbol with a call to the new ldr_l etc macro, and they
> > belong to the kaslr patch set of arm32.
> >
> > Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/log/?h=arm-kaslr-latest
> >
> > Ard Biesheuvel (3):
> >    arm-soc: exynos: replace open coded VA->PA conversions
> >    arm-soc: mvebu: replace open coded VA->PA conversion
> >    arm-soc: various: replace open coded VA->PA calculation
> Usually these patches should go through the respective platform
> maintainer trees,
> and from there into the soc tree, but time is a little short here.
>
> I could apply them directly with the maintainer Acks, but I don't understand
> the significance of you sending them now. Is something broken without the
> three patches? Are these the only ones missing from Ard's original series,
> or is this preparation? Would you expect the patches to get backported to
> stable kernels?
>
>         Arnd
> .