Re: [PATCH stable v5.10 0/7] arm64: Default to 32-bit wide ZONE_DMA

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jun 23 2021 - 03:34:47 EST


On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 03:25:10PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>
>
> On 2021/6/23 15:12, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 02:59:59PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > There are two more patches about the ZONE_DMA[32] changes,
> >
> > What ZONE_DMA changes?
>
> See the subject, [PATCH stable v5.10 0/7] arm64: Default to 32-bit wide
> ZONE_DMA, We asked the ARM64 ZONE_DMA change backport before, link[1]

The subject doesn't help much, sorry, what commit does this refer to?
What happened to it? Was it accepted or rejected?

> > > especially the
> > > second one, both them need be backported, thanks.
> >
> > Backported to where?
>
> stable 5.10

Why?

> > > 791ab8b2e3db - arm64: Ignore any DMA offsets in the max_zone_phys()
> > > calculation
> > > 2687275a5843 - arm64: Force NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS if crashkernel reservation is
> > > required
> >
> > Have you tried these patches? Where do they need to be applied to?
>
> Yes, we tested it, without them, especially the second one, we will
> meet crash when using kexec boot, also there is discussion in [2]
> and [3] from Catalin.

These [] do not seem to be links :(

thanks,

greg k-h