Re: [PATCH] riscv: mm: fix wrong phys_ram_base value for RV64

From: Jisheng Zhang
Date: Sun Dec 26 2021 - 03:18:58 EST


On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 16:52:08 +0100
Alexandre ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 12/2/21 16:36, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > Currently, if 64BIT and !XIP_KERNEL, the phys_ram_base is always 0,
> > no matter the real start of dram reported by memblock is. The original
> > patch[1] is correct, I believe it's not corrected merged due to lots
> > of #ifdef in arch/riscv/mm/init.c, I plan to send a clean up series
> > soon.
> >
> > [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-riscv/2021-July/007650.html
> >
> > Fixes: 6d7f91d914bc ("riscv: Get rid of CONFIG_PHYS_RAM_BASE in kernel physical address conversion")
> > Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> > index 24b2b8044602..3c0649dba4ff 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> > @@ -187,10 +187,10 @@ static void __init setup_bootmem(void)
> >
> >
> > phys_ram_end = memblock_end_of_DRAM();
> > -#ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
> > #ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
> > phys_ram_base = memblock_start_of_DRAM();
> > #endif
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
> > /*
> > * memblock allocator is not aware of the fact that last 4K bytes of
> > * the addressable memory can not be mapped because of IS_ERR_VALUE
>
>
> Good catch, you can add:
>
> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx>
>

Hi Palmer,

I noticed this patch is missing in recent riscv fixes pull.

Thanks