Large physical address support on e500 platform

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jan 26 03:46:10 EST 2010


On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:27 AM, Aaron Pace wrote:

>>> 
>>> Its possible that we've broken module/vmalloc support with
>>> "Large physical addressing".? Its not something I've
>>> tried in a while.? What kernel/git SHA are you using.
>>> 
> 
>> I'm just pulling in from the main kernel tree git.
>> My current version is 2.6.33-rc4-00193-gd1e4922-dirty,
>> but it had not changed since 2.6.33-rc2
>> 
>> I started from 2.6.32, but I don't remember if I had a large PA
>> support enabled there.
> 
> Just to second this issue, the following commit is what broke this:
> 
> [76acc2c1a7a9a8c2cae7e9cf8d0a8b374a48aa94]
> 
> I didn't have time to delve into the whys & hows, but this commit
> caused the same issue on an 8572 platform.
> Reverting this one change allows everything (including 36-bit memory
> access) to work correctly, as before.

Is a simple "hello world" module sufficient to show the issue?  I'll look into it this week.

- k


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