Re: [PATCH v5] MIPS: Truncate link address into 32bit for 32bit kernel

From: Jiaxun Yang
Date: Mon May 04 2020 - 12:11:44 EST




ä 2020å5æ4æ GMT+08:00 äå11:46:13, Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> åå:
>On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 01:22:30PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
>>
>> > > Alternatively, have you made any attempt to verify if actually replacing
>> > >the setting for VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS would be safe? Glancing over its use
>> > >there do not appear to be many places.
>> >
>> > Limited experiments showed it should be fine...
>> >
>> > But MIPS kernel has some design I'm not really familiar with like SYM32 for
>> > 64-bit kernel and special address space design for Trap-and-emul KVM.
>>
>> This only affects CONFIG_32BIT kernels, so SYM32 does not apply; I can't
>> comment on KVM. There's still that bunch of:
>>
>> $(shell expr $(...) \< 0xffffffff80000000)
>>
>> constructs I mentioned before, so let's leave your change as it stands at
>> this time. Please do rename the variable as I suggested though, I hope
>> that's not a big deal.
>
>Jiaxun, are you going to send an update with this change ?

Sorry my mail server missed Maciej's reply.

Should I send another version or you just fix it at apply time?

>
>Thomas.
>

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Jiaxun Yang