Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] riscv: Move kernel mapping to vmalloc zone

Hi Zong, Le 6/3/20 à 10:52 PM, Zong Li a écrit : On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 4:01 PM Alexandre Ghiti wrote: This is a preparatory patch for relocatable kernel. The kernel used to be linked at PAGE_OFFSET address and used to be loaded physically at the beginning of the main memory. Therefore, we

Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] riscv: Move kernel mapping to vmalloc zone

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 4:01 PM Alexandre Ghiti wrote: > > This is a preparatory patch for relocatable kernel. > > The kernel used to be linked at PAGE_OFFSET address and used to be loaded > physically at the beginning of the main memory. Therefore, we could use > the linear mapping for the kernel

Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] riscv: Move kernel mapping to vmalloc zone

Hi Alexandre, Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on powerpc/next] [also build test WARNING on linus/master v5.7 next-20200603] [cannot apply to mpe/next atish-riscv-linux/topo_v3] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note

[PATCH v4 1/4] riscv: Move kernel mapping to vmalloc zone

This is a preparatory patch for relocatable kernel. The kernel used to be linked at PAGE_OFFSET address and used to be loaded physically at the beginning of the main memory. Therefore, we could use the linear mapping for the kernel mapping. But the relocated kernel base address will be different