Re: [RFC 01/23] ARM: LPAE: disable phys-to-virt patching on PAEsystems

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Jul 24 2012 - 05:42:16 EST


On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:09:03AM +0100, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:
> From: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@xxxxxx>
>
> The current phys-to-virt patching mechanism is broken on PAE machines with
> 64-bit physical addressing. This patch disables the patching mechanism in
> such configurations.

It may be broken, I don't remember whether I tested this feature. What's
the PHYS_OFFSET on your platform? Is it within the low 4GB range?

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Catalin
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