From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] ARM: boot: Obtain start of physical memory from DTB
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 13:28:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a3H=7qx+Rz9sScTVCSMKWGwQ_ROnyoyK73A5yUd+_jbTw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdU5DG06G4H=+PH+OONMT_9oE==KS=wP+bLgY9xVCez6Ww@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 1:21 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:46 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
> <linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > However, something under /chosen should work.
> >
> > Yet another sticky plaster...
>
> IMHO the old masking technique is the hacky solution covered by
> plasters.
>
> DT describes the hardware. In general, where to put the kernel is a
> software policy, and thus doesn't belong in DT, except perhaps under
> /chosen. But that would open another can of worms, as people usually
> have no business in specifying where the kernel should be located.
> In the crashkernel case, there is a clear separation between memory to
> be used by the crashkernel, and memory to be solely inspected by the
> crashkernel.
>
> Devicetree Specification, Release v0.3, Section 3.4 "/memory node" says:
>
> "The client program may access memory not covered by any memory
> reservations (see section 5.3)"
>
> (Section 5.3 "Memory Reservation Block" only talks about structures in
> the FDT, not about DTS)
>
> Hence according to the above, the crashkernel is rightfully allowed to
> do whatever it wants with all memory under the /memory node.
> However, there is also
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/reserved-memory.txt.
> This suggests the crashkernel should be passed a DTB that contains a
> /reserved-memory node, describing which memory cannot be used freely.
> Then the decompressor needs to take this into account when deciding
> where the put the kernel.
>
> Yes, the above requires changing code. But at least it provides a
> path forward, getting rid of the fragile old masking technique.
There is an existing "linux,usable-memory-range" property documented
in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt, which as I understand
is exactly what you are looking for, except that it is currently only
documented for arm64.
Would extending this to arm work?
Arnd
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2020-04-29 8:21 ` [PATCH v6] ARM: boot: Obtain start of physical memory from DTB Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-05-19 8:53 ` Lukasz Stelmach
2020-05-19 9:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-05-19 9:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-05-19 9:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-05-19 11:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-05-19 11:28 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2020-05-19 12:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-05-19 11:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
[not found] ` <CGME20200519122044eucas1p1220e8827c66dd1ace94b0a86a34f9c37@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-05-19 12:20 ` Lukasz Stelmach
2020-05-19 12:27 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
[not found] ` <CGME20200519125008eucas1p2fe9f14c8f785e956a15097d1eca491c7@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-05-19 12:49 ` Lukasz Stelmach
2020-05-19 13:12 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
[not found] ` <CGME20200519140211eucas1p24dbc0f54594983731a2dcdd4a943ae27@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-05-19 14:02 ` Lukasz Stelmach
[not found] ` <CGME20200519114657eucas1p156e85218074a7656b93b162e6242bc56@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-05-19 11:46 ` Lukasz Stelmach
2020-05-19 13:56 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-05-19 14:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-05-19 14:32 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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