Re: [PATCH] MIPS: kernel: Reserve exception base early to prevent corruption

On 3/3/21 1:14 PM, Serge Semin wrote: > Hello Thomas, > Thanks for the patch. My comments are below. > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 07:57:13PM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: >> BMIPS is one of the few platforms that do change the exception base. >> After commit 2dcb39645441 ("memblock: do not

Re: [PATCH] MIPS: kernel: Reserve exception base early to prevent corruption

Hello Thomas, Thanks for the patch. My comments are below. On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 07:57:13PM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > BMIPS is one of the few platforms that do change the exception base. > After commit 2dcb39645441 ("memblock: do not start bottom-up allocations > with kernel_end") we

[PATCH] MIPS: kernel: Reserve exception base early to prevent corruption

BMIPS is one of the few platforms that do change the exception base. After commit 2dcb39645441 ("memblock: do not start bottom-up allocations with kernel_end") we started seeing BMIPS boards fail to boot with the built-in FDT being corrupted. Before the cited commit, early allocations would be in