On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 06:19:17PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > This patch adds an option which defaults to "y" in cases where we > could possibly be running Cortex A8 and using Thumb2 instructions. > In reality the workaround might not be required at all for the kernel > if virtual instruction memory is linear in physical memory. Hmm. The main kernel image is guaranteed to be contiguous in physical memory for all sorts of reasons, so this really isn't a concern for the kernel itself. Modules, however, are a different matter, as they are mapped in using individual pages, and are most likely to be non-contiguous in physical memory. The kernel's module linker knows nothing about this errata, so it'll generally just fix up the relocations in the most basic of ways. So, I think we should always use this --no-fix-cortex-a8 option where the linker supports it irrespective of whether we're running on a core needing this workaround, but we probably need to fix the kernel module linker to know about this. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
