On 07/07/17 19:59, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> As we already did for Armada XP switch from virt_to_phys() to
> __pa_symbol().
>
> The reason for it was well explained by Mark Rutland so let's quote him:
>
> "virt_to_phys() is intended to operate on the linear/direct mapping of
> RAM.
>
> __pa_symbol() is intended to operate on the kernel mapping, which may
> not be in the linear/direct mapping on all architectures. e.g. arm64 and
> x86_64 map the kernel image and RAM separately.
>
> On 32-bit ARM the kernel image mapping is tied to the linear/direct
> mapping, so that works, but as it's semantically wrong (and broken for
> generic code), the DEBUG_VIRTUAL checks complain."
>
> Fixes: db88977894ab ("arm: mvebu: support for SMP on 98DX3336 SoC")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> with this patch I don't expect any regression, hover it would be nice
> if you can test it.
Works for me
Tested-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>