Kernel 4.7: PAGE_GUARDED and _PAGE_NO_CACHE

luigi burdo intermediadc at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 23 05:58:35 AEST 2016


Christian, i think Darren patch override some memory region that on kernel.org was different and this make the kernel patched run and work

Luigi
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Da: Christian Zigotzky [chzigotzky at xenosoft.de]
Inviato: mercoledì 22 giugno 2016 21.07
A: Benjamin Herrenschmidt; Michael Ellerman; Aneesh Kumar K.V; Darren Stevens; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org; Michael Ellerman; Julian Margetson; Adrian Cox; R.T.Dickinson; R.T.Dickinson; Pat Wall; Pat Wall; contact at a-eon.com; Matthew Leaman; luigi burdo; Christian Zigotzky
Oggetto: Kernel 4.7: PAGE_GUARDED and _PAGE_NO_CACHE

Hi All,

Please find attached Darren's patch. With this patch, the Nemo board
boots. That means, the problematic source code is somewhere in this patch.
Which file in this patch is responsible for starting the kernel?

Thanks,

Christian

On 13 June 2016 at 8:09 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> I could send you a patch but it doesn't work with the three PowerPC
> commits. I think we have to fix the boot issue at first. After that we
> can integrate the first patch for the Nemo board.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christian
>
> On 13 June 2016 at 10:19 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> The right way to not have this problem anymore is to cleanup and
>> submit your patches upstream so they don't break all the time :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ben.
>>
>>



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