linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Add SMP bringup support for mt65xx socs

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Date:	Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:44:58 +0800
From:	Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@...iatek.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
CC:	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	<devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	<linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, <srv_heupstream@...iatek.com>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Add SMP bringup support for mt65xx socs

On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 18:50 +0800, Yingjoe Chen wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 23:31 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > The problem is that this patch series uses memblock_reserve() way after
> > the memory has been transitioned out of memblock's control, so actually
> > this has no effect.
> > 
> > I've seen a number of patches doing this.  I'm not sure what's soo friggin
> > hard for people to understand: memblock is about the EARLY stages of
> > getting the system up and running.  Once the memory has been handed
> > over to the kernel's memory management, memblock MUST NOT BE USED to
> > reserve memory.
> > 
> > There is one place, and one place only in the ARM kernel where
> > memblock_reserve() is possible, and that's in the ->reserve machine
> > callback.  NOWHERE ELSE is permissible.
> 
> 
> It seems we can write memory-reserve node in device tree to do this as
> well. Do you prefer us to reserve memblock in reserve callback or using
> device tree?

After consideration, I decide to reserve this memory in device tree. The
memory is already used by trustzone, we should reserved them even when
we don't run SMP. I just sent out a new series, please help to review
them.
Thanks

Joe.C


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