On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:48:08AM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven > <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Olof, > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 03:09:46PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > >>> Please consider these Renesas ARM based SoC fixes for v4.5. > >>> > >>> This pull request is comprised of patches from Geert Uytterhoeven to avoid > >>> writing to .text. > >>> > >>> * "ARM: shmobile: Move shmobile_scu_base from .text to .bss" > >>> > >>> Resolves a problem for XIP kernels as writing to .text is not allowed. > >>> For non-XIP kernels a problem does not manifst as the pages are mapped > >>> read-only during late kernel startup. > >>> > >>> * The remaining patches resolve a kernel-crash that occurs during system > >>> suspend for CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y kernels. > >>> > >>> > >>> The following changes since commit 92e963f50fc74041b5e9e744c330dca48e04f08d: > >>> > >>> Linux 4.5-rc1 (2016-01-24 13:06:47 -0800) > >>> > >>> are available in the git repository at: > >>> > >>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas.git tags/renesas-soc-fixes-for-v4.5 > >>> > >>> for you to fetch changes up to 901c5ffaaed117a38be9d0c29247c4888d6c8636: > >>> > >>> ARM: shmobile: Remove shmobile_boot_arg (2016-02-17 18:27:21 +0900) > >> > >> Hi Simon, Geert, > >> > >> I don't think any of these fixes are for regressions, are they? I.e. this is > >> work to enable configs that never used to work (XIP, CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA)? > > > > These configs indeed never worked before. > > > > However, > > > > commit 25362dc496edaf17f714c0fecd8b3eb79670207b > > Author: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Tue Jan 26 01:19:36 2016 +0100 > > > > ARM: 8501/1: mm: flip priority of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA > > > > in arm/for-next will enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA by default. > > > > Not having the fixes in v4.5 means that if Russell's tree is merged > > into mainline > > for v4.6 before arm-soc, it will cause regressions and bisection issues. > > Ok, either way there'll be windows in which bisect will fail since the > changes are on independent branches. > > Based on that, and looking at the patches, I'll pick it up now for fixes. Thanks Olof, much appreciated.
