linux-kernel - Re: [4.4-rt2 PATCH] ARM: highmem: take into account FIX_KMAP_BEGIN in switch

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:56:26 +0100
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:	Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>
Cc:	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>
Subject: Re: [4.4-rt2 PATCH] ARM: highmem: take into account FIX_KMAP_BEGIN
 in switch_kmaps()

* Grygorii Strashko | 2016-01-15 16:20:47 [+0200]:

>Now the random crashes are observed on ARM TI am437x-idk-evm used with
>-RT Kernel v4.4-rt2 and with Highmem enabled.
>
>The reason of issue is that, newly introduced switch_kmaps() does not
>take into account FIX_KMAP_BEGIN, which was re-added by
>commit a5f4c561b3b1 ("ARM: 8415/1: early fixmap support for earlycon")
>(K4.3) for ARM and since that the value of FIX_KMAP_BEGIN
>is not 0 any more.
>
>Hence update switch_kmaps() so it will take into FIX_KMAP_BEGIN while
>calculating fixmap idx. This patch also introduces fixmap_idx() to
>make code simpler and remove duplicated code.

Thank you debugging and fixing this. I will fold this into the initial
patch since it is a v4.1..v4.4 fallout. Regarding your "nobody else be
me" question in the other mail: once I managed something ARM+highmem I
I see this:

|Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid!
|
|[   11.738637] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <vexpress>.
|[   11.909949] ------------[ cut here ]------------
|[   11.909958] kernel BUG at arch/arm/mm/highmem.c:90!

So I did not get as far as a shell to start anything.

>Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>
>Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>

Sebastian