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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 fix for 5.14
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:10:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210827171041.GA28149@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wjd28sN9khO=1j6zmBk+2n4_e+SY1URjW9hzsHSAZU+7Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:03:29AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The ARM code actually uses that complex pfn_to_section_nr() and
> memblock_is_memory() etc. That seems a bit of an overkill, since the
> memblock code should have translated all that into being reserved.
> 
> But again, I don't actually know exactly what triggered the issue on
> ARM, so the above is just my "this seems to be a more proper check"
> suggestion.

They CCed me on their earlier discussion, but I did not catch up on it
until you responded to the pull request  If I understood it correct it
was about a platform device mapping a MMIO region (like a PCI bar),
but something about section alignment cause pfn_valid to mistrigger.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-27 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-26 13:17 [GIT PULL] arm64 fix for 5.14 Will Deacon
2021-08-26 18:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-27  7:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-27 17:03     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-27 17:10       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-08-27 17:16         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-31 13:31           ` Will Deacon
2021-08-31 19:16             ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-31 16:56           ` Catalin Marinas
2021-08-26 18:52 ` pr-tracker-bot

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