Re: [PATCH] ARM: zynq: Reserve correct amount of non-DMA RAM

From: Nathan Rossi
Date: Thu Nov 10 2016 - 04:36:25 EST


On 10 November 2016 at 18:41, Michal Simek <monstr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> + Nathan
>
> 2016-10-31 17:26 GMT+01:00 Kyle Roeschley <kyle.roeschley@xxxxxx>:
>>
>> On Zynq, we haven't been reserving the correct amount of DMA-incapable
>> RAM to keep DMA away from it (per the Zynq TRM Section 4.1, it should be
>> the first 512k). In older kernels, this was masked by the
>> memblock_reserve call in arm_memblock_init(). Now, reserve the correct
>> amount excplicitly rather than relying on swapper_pg_dir, which is an
>> address and not a size anyway.
>>
>> Fixes: 46f5b96 ("ARM: zynq: Reserve not DMAable space in front of the
>> kernel")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kyle Roeschley <kyle.roeschley@xxxxxx>

Tested-by: Nathan Rossi <nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

For reference this causes problems with DEBUG_RODATA (which changed to
default yes for CPU_V7 in v4.6) due to padding memory between
.head.text and .text, allowing memory below 0x80000 to be available
for allocation as non-reserved memory.

Regards,
Nathan

>> ---
>> Found when migrating from 4.1 to 4.6.
>>
>> arch/arm/mach-zynq/common.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-zynq/common.c b/arch/arm/mach-zynq/common.c
>> index 6cefdb8..75885bc 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-zynq/common.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-zynq/common.c
>> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ void __iomem *zynq_scu_base;
>> static void __init zynq_memory_init(void)
>> {
>> if (!__pa(PAGE_OFFSET))
>> - memblock_reserve(__pa(PAGE_OFFSET), __pa(swapper_pg_dir));
>> + memblock_reserve(__pa(PAGE_OFFSET), 0x80000);
>> }
>>
>> static struct platform_device zynq_cpuidle_device = {
>> --
>> 2.9.3
>>
>>
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