Re: [PATCH -next 0/3] replace open coded VA->PA calculation

From: cuigaosheng <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 0/3] replace open coded VA->PA calculation
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:41:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfc25b22-2f66-4404-66c4-44c9c8c3bab4@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a1-0u4VCCfgc7tjmnANM0yr7oUrQX2y-ZSVvZHDN191BQ@mail.gmail.com>

> I could apply them directly with the maintainer Acks, but I don't understand
> the significance of you sending them now. Is something broken without the
> three patches? Are these the only ones missing from Ard's original series,
> or is this preparation? Would you expect the patches to get backported to
> stable kernels?

Thanks for your reply.

This is preparation work for arm32 kaslr,and I want to continue to improve
the solution based on the work of Ard. These patches are relatively
independent, so I submit these patches first.

Gaosheng.

在 2021/12/20 23:39, Arnd Bergmann 写道:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 9:58 AM Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com> wrote:
>> These patches replace an open coded calculation to obtain the physical
>> address of a far symbol with a call to the new ldr_l etc macro, and they
>> belong to the kaslr patch set of arm32.
>>
>> Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/log/?h=arm-kaslr-latest
>>
>> Ard Biesheuvel (3):
>>    arm-soc: exynos: replace open coded VA->PA conversions
>>    arm-soc: mvebu: replace open coded VA->PA conversion
>>    arm-soc: various: replace open coded VA->PA calculation
> Usually these patches should go through the respective platform
> maintainer trees,
> and from there into the soc tree, but time is a little short here.
>
> I could apply them directly with the maintainer Acks, but I don't understand
> the significance of you sending them now. Is something broken without the
> three patches? Are these the only ones missing from Ard's original series,
> or is this preparation? Would you expect the patches to get backported to
> stable kernels?
>
>         Arnd
> .