Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm/mm : Report actual image regions in /proc/iomem

From: Russell King (Oracle)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2023 - 06:11:40 EST


On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 02:51:55PM +0900, Jungseung Lee wrote:
> The resource reservations in /proc/iomem made for the kernel image did
> not reflect the gaps between text, rodata, and data.
> Add the "rodata" resource and update the start/end calculations.
>
> Before :
> 04000000-2f7fffff : System RAM
> 04100000-04cfffff : Kernel code
> 04e00000-05369a27 : Kernel data
>
> After :
> 04000000-2f7fffff : System RAM
> 04100000-049fffff : Kernel code
> 04a00000-04cb2fff : Kernel rodata
> 04e00000-05369a27 : Kernel data

NAK. This is API, and programs do read and parse this file. It is
important that this file reports these parameters in a similar way
to other architectures. Other architectures do not split up the
individual regions.

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