linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: reserve the memblock right after the kernel

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Date:   Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:29:06 +0100
From:   Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@...ia.com>
To:     Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
Cc:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, Paul Burton <paulburton@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: reserve the memblock right after the kernel

Hi!

On 13/11/2020 03:30, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
>> 2) The check_kernel_sections_mem() method can be removed. But it
>> should be done carefully. We at least need to try to find all the
>> platforms, which rely on its functionality.
> It have been more than 10 years since introducing this this check, but
> I believe there must be a reason at the time.

It doesn't look like 10 years to me :)

commit a94e4f24ec836c8984f839594bad7454184975b1
Author: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>
Date:   Mon Aug 19 22:23:13 2019 +0800

    MIPS: init: Drop boot_mem_map

at least not so long in public, that's why we only noticed recently, that
is breaks Octeon platform.

-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.