On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Kees Cook wrote:

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Nicolas Pitre
[off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, 30 May 2014, Rob Herring wrote:

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There's work in flight to support early_ioremap, early console, and RO
text patching which all use the fixmap region.

There's a couple of options to solve this:

- Only support up to 16 cpus. It could be anywhere between 17-31, but
that seems somewhat unlikely. Are we really ever going to see 32-bit
32 core systems?

I wouldn't rule that out.  I've seen 16-core ARM chips in 2008 (although
they didn't go into production).  Silly limitations like that always
come back to bite you.  And we have better alternatives.

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- Reduce KM_TYPE_NR from 16 to 15. Based on the comment for it, we
probably don't want to do that. Is increasing it to the default of 20
worthwhile? Some of the options here would allow doing that.
- Add 0xffe00000-0xfff00000 to the fixmap region. This would make
fixmap span 2 PMDs with the top PMD having a mixture of uses like we
had before.

That would be my preferred approach.  Note here it could be
0xffe00000-0xfffe0000 to include the whole of the previous fixmap area
curently unused.

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- push the PCI i/o space down to 0xfec00000 and make fixmap 4MB. This
is a cleaner solution as the 2 PMDs are only used for fixmap. This may
require some static mapping adjustments on some platforms.

No need.  With the latest changes, the fixmap area is between 0xffc00000
and 0xffe00000 (there is apparently a mistake in
Documentation/arm/memory.txt).  So currently 0xff000000-0xffc00000 is
free, which makes the fixmap area far away from the PCI i/o area with
plenti of space in between.

So, it seems there is something wrong with this patch series. I had to
revert "ARM: 8031/2: change fixmap mapping region to support 32 CPUs"
to make other fixmap changes work correctly. I think this is due to
the non-highmem config case moving the fixmap to a location where
there is to page table entry...

Could you elaborate please?  How can the non-highmem config move the 
fixmap area?  And what are those other fixmap changes?


Nicolas