Re: [PATCH v3] sh: Restructure setup code to reserve memory regions earlier

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.sh.devel,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <aea743f7f514cfea239ece0fe8f697b9a8acc09f.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Hi Oreoluwa,

On Mon, 2024-05-20 at 10:58 -0700, Oreoluwa Babatunde wrote:
> The unflatten_device_tree() function contains a call to
> memblock_alloc(). This is a problem because this allocation is done
> before any of the reserved memory regions are set aside in
> paging_init().
> As a result, there is a possibility for memblock to unknowingly allocate
> from any of the memory regions that are meant to be reserved.
> 
> Hence, restructure the setup code to set aside reserved memory
> regions before any allocations are done using memblock.

Let me test this first to see whether this causes any regressions on my
J2 board. Afterwards, I will review and merge the patch to my SH tree.

Sorry for taking so long for this.

Adrian

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