linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: don't discard memblock for kexec

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Date:   Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:41:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
cc:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: don't discard memblock for kexec

On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Discarding the memblock arrays usually works, but causes problems
> with kexec, as pointed out by this kbuild warning:
> 
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x7c60): Section mismatch in reference from the function machine_kexec_prepare() to the function .meminit.text:memblock_is_region_memory()
> 
> This lets us keep the memblock structures around whenever kexec
> is enabled, but otherwise still drops them.
> 
> Fixes: cf1b09908a23 ("ARM: 8693/1: discard memblock arrays when possible")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>

> ---
>  arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 75b8c7e79ebc..90922a090501 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ config ARM
>  	bool
>  	default y
>  	select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
> -	select ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK if !HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID
> +	select ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK if !HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID && !KEXEC
>  	select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
>  	select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
>  	select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
> -- 
> 2.9.0
> 
>