On 02/27/14 17:47, Russ Dill wrote:
On 02/27/2014 04:09 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
On 02/27/14 15:57, Sebastian Capella wrote:
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h index 8756e4b..1079ea8 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h @@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ static inline void *phys_to_virt(phys_addr_t x) */ #define __pa(x) __virt_to_phys((unsigned long)(x)) #define __va(x) ((void *)__phys_to_virt((phys_addr_t)(x))) +#define __pa_symbol(x) __pa(RELOC_HIDE((unsigned long)(x), 0))
Just curious, is there a reason for the RELOC_HIDE() here? Or __pa_symbol() for that matter? It looks like only x86 uses this on the __nosave_{begin,end} symbol. Maybe it's copy-pasta?
From my understanding this needs to stick around so long as gcc 3.x is supported (did it get dropped yet?) on ARM Linux since it doesn't support -fno-strict-overflow.
I don't think it's been dropped yet but I wonder if anyone has tried recent kernels with such a compiler?
Would the usage of &__pv_table_begin in arch/arm/mm/mmu.c also need the same treatment? Or the tagtable loop in atags_parse.c? Do the other architectures also need to be fixed? That link Sebastian points to says that ppc originally needed it but pfn_is_nosave() on ppc doesn't use RELOC_HIDE anywhere in their __pa() macro from what I can tell.