Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Fixmap support and MM cleanups

From: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
To: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@wdc.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List"
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@wdc.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Fixmap support and MM cleanups
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:58:39 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAhSdy3Bnpq7MawudNB_XyQYxBOietdp4vWyB5aoj06o+8yNSg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mhng-c25efbc6-094f-46ab-a4d8-480b53944cde@palmer-si-x1c4>

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 6:07 AM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:21:43 PST (-0800), anup@brainfault.org wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:45 AM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 05:27:53 PST (-0800), Anup Patel wrote:
> >> > This patchset does:
> >> > 1. Moves MM related code from kernel/setup.c to mm/init.c
> >> > 2. Implements compile-time fixed mappings
> >> >
> >> > Using fixed mappings available, we can now get earlyprints
> >> > even without SBI calls. For example, we can use kernel
> >> > parameter "earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0x10000000" to get early
> >> > prints on QEMU virt machine without using SBI calls.
> >> >
> >> > The patchset is tested on QEMU virt machine. It is based on
> >> > Linux-5.0-rc2 and can be found at riscv_fixmap_v2 branch of:
> >> > https://github.com/avpatel/linux.git.
> >> >
> >> > Changes since v1:
> >> >  - Use more characters per line in changelog of PATCH3
> >> >  - Removed #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ from PATCH5
> >> >  - Use more characters per line in commets of PATCH5
> >> >  - Added PATCH6 to implement keepinitrd kernel parameter
> >> >
> >> > Anup Patel (6):
> >> >   RISC-V: Move free_initrd_mem() to kernel/setup.c
> >> >   RISC-V: Setup init_mm before parse_early_param()
> >> >   RISC-V: Move setup_bootmem() to mm/init.c
> >> >   RISC-V: Move setup_vm() to mm/init.c
> >> >   RISC-V: Implement compile-time fixed mappings
> >> >   RISC-V: Implement keepinitrd kernel parameter
> >> >
> >> >  arch/riscv/Kconfig               |   3 +
> >> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/fixmap.h  |  44 +++++++++++
> >> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h |   1 +
> >> >  arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c        | 114 ++++++----------------------
> >> >  arch/riscv/mm/init.c             | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >> >  5 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)
> >> >  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/fixmap.h
> >>
> >> I'm getting some git issue when trying to merge the third patch via email
> >>
> >>     $ mhng-pipe-show_stdout 4 | git am -s
> >>     Applying: RISC-V: Move setup_bootmem() to mm/init.c
> >>     error: patch failed: arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c:163
> >>     error: arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c: patch does not apply
> >>     Patch failed at 0001 RISC-V: Move setup_bootmem() to mm/init.c
> >>     Use 'git am --show-current-patch' to see the failed patch
> >>     When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue".
> >>     If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead.
> >>     To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".
> >>
> >> can you send a PR with a signed tag?  I'll include this as part of the next
> >> merge window.
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
> >
> > Okay, I will prepare a PR with following patchsets:
> > 1. Fixmap support and MM cleanups (Author: Anup Patel)
> > 2. riscv: minor fixes and cleanups (Author: Johan Hovold)
> > 3. RISC-V related changes from "Various SMP related fixes" (Author: Atish Patra)
> >
> > All above patchsets touch same source files so this will
> > help you.
>
> Thanks.  There's also a handful of comments from Christoph that I agree with
> about the keepinitrd stuff.

I have sent PR with Fixmap patches only.

Johan and Atish will rebase their patches based on your tree.

Regards,
Anup

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