linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] of/fdt: Populate phys_initrd_start/phys_initrd

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Message-ID: <20181030093239.GJ30658@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:32:39 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
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        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] of/fdt: Populate phys_initrd_start/phys_initrd_size
 from FDT

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 04:52:04PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> If the architecture implements ARCH_HAS_PHYS_INITRD, make the FDT
> scanning code populate the physical address of the start of the FDT and
> its size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mm/init.c | 2 +-
>  drivers/of/fdt.c   | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> index 8f364aa24172..517e95cfb5d2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
> @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ static void __init arm_initrd_init(void)
>  	phys_addr_t start;
>  	unsigned long size;
>  
> -	/* FDT scan will populate initrd_start */
> +	/* FDT scan will populate initrd_start and phys_initrd_start */
>  	if (initrd_start && !phys_initrd_size) {
>  		phys_initrd_start = __virt_to_phys(initrd_start);
>  		phys_initrd_size = initrd_end - initrd_start;

We should be able to delete the whole if () { } block and comment as
a result of this series - it was added by Rob in 65939301acdb to
unify the DT initrd code.

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