[PATCH 1/9] alpha: Convert mapping routine to rely on physical address

Leon Romanovsky leon at kernel.org
Sun Sep 28 21:58:38 AEST 2025


On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 01:27:12PM +0200, Magnus Lindholm wrote:
> > Thanks for the effort.
> >
> > Can you please check the following change instead of reverting the patches?
> >
> 
> No problem, happy to assist. I think this did the trick! preliminary
> testing shows
> that this now works on alpha! I guess the offset information in paddr was lost
> by doing "paddr &= PAGE_MASK" before retrieving the offset, well spotted!
> 
> I'll keep running the system with some load to make sure there is nothing else
> we haven't spotted yet, but so far so good. I'll keep you posted.
> 
> Will you be putting out a v2 of this patchset with these updates?

Yes, will try to send today. 

Thanks again for your help.

> 
> Regards
> 
> Magnus Lindholm


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