On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 12:23:48PM +0200, Magnus Lindholm wrote:
> > After reverting the above commits, I'm able to build a working kernel,
> > that is, no filesystem corruption occurs. I'll take a closer look at this
> > after the weekend.
> >
>
> Short update, It is enough to revert the followi
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 01:27:12PM +0200, Magnus Lindholm wrote:
> > Thanks for the effort.
> >
> > Can you please check the following change instead of reverting the patches?
> >
>
> No problem, happy to assist. I think this did the trick! preliminary
> testing shows
> that this now works on alph
> Thanks for the effort.
>
> Can you please check the following change instead of reverting the patches?
>
No problem, happy to assist. I think this did the trick! preliminary
testing shows
that this now works on alpha! I guess the offset information in paddr was lost
by doing "paddr &= PAGE_MASK"
> After reverting the above commits, I'm able to build a working kernel,
> that is, no filesystem corruption occurs. I'll take a closer look at this
> after the weekend.
>
Short update, It is enough to revert the following commits, in order to
have a working kernel on alpha:
e78a9d72517a88faa6f1
> > Suggest testing the same branch with the alpha patch reverted just to
> > rule out any issue in the core code. If it reproduces suggest to
> > bisect Leon's branch.
Hi again, I've booted up the ES40 again with the kernel build from Leons
branch, it boots up but message log is full off messages
> Suggest testing the same branch with the alpha patch reverted just to
> rule out any issue in the core code. If it reproduces suggest to
> bisect Leon's branch.
>
I can try to revert just the patch containing the alpha-specific stuff and
see what happens and then, as you say, maybe do a bisect f
>
> I will try to setup Alpha architecture in QEMU in following days, but
> would like to ask first. Did you test alpha on clean v6.17-rc5 (without
> my patches) as a reference?
>
I'm running now on a fresh git pull from today so it's more like a
6.17-rc7. So no problems running the latest git at l
On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>
> From: Leon Romanovsky
>
> Alpha doesn't need struct *page and can perform mapping based on
> physical addresses. So convert it to implement new .map_phys callback.
Hi,
SInce this patch affects the Alpha platform I got curious and decid
From: Leon Romanovsky
Alpha doesn't need struct *page and can perform mapping based on
physical addresses. So convert it to implement new .map_phys callback.
As part of this change, remove useless BUG_ON() as DMA mapping layer
ensures that right direction is provided.
Signed-off-by: Leon Romano
