Le 10/08/2021 à 17:07, Palmer Dabbelt a écrit :
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 02:35:25 PDT (-0700), Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:26:31AM +0200, Alex Ghiti wrote:
Hi Greg,
Le 9/08/2021 à 12:42, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org a écrit :
The patch below does not apply to the 5.13-stable tree.
I don't know when stable was cc on this patch, this fixes something introduced in 5.14-rc1, so this is not normal it can't be applied.
Sorry for the noise,
Alex
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git
commit
id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 6d7f91d914bc90a15ebc426440c26081337ceaa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
2001
From: Alexandre Ghiti alex@ghiti.fr Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:59:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] riscv: Get rid of CONFIG_PHYS_RAM_BASE in kernel
physical
address conversion
The usage of CONFIG_PHYS_RAM_BASE for all kernel types was a mistake: this value is implementation-specific and this breaks the
genericity of
the RISC-V kernel.
Fix this by introducing a new variable phys_ram_base that holds this value at runtime and use it in the kernel physical address conversion macro. Since this value is used only for XIP kernels, evaluate it
only if
CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL is set which in addition optimizes this macro for standard kernels at compile-time.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti alex@ghiti.fr Tested-by: Emil Renner Berthing kernel@esmil.dk Reviewed-by: Jisheng Zhang jszhang@kernel.org Fixes: 44c922572952 ("RISC-V: enable XIP")
But this commit id is in 5.13, is that incorrect?
I wasn't sure what to do here: IMO this fixes a bug that was there the whole time, it's just not one that actually manifests until the refactoring. I figured I'd put the farther back tag just to be safe, in case someone had picked up the feature (more likely a distro tree, but IIUC they're also looking here).
Ok I understand why it got to stable but the Fixes tag is wrong to me, it should be commit 7094e6acaf7a ("riscv: Simplify xip and !xip kernel address conversion macros") because this is the one that makes use of CONFIG_PHYS_RAM_BASE for *all* kernels, and not only xip kernel, which was wrong. The original problem comes from this commit introduced in v5.14-rc1 so it should not be backported.
Alex