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SubjectRe: ARM: static kernel in vmalloc space (was Re: [PATCH 0/3] Highmem support for 32-bit RISC-V)
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 4:21 PM afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Kernel now boots to prompt w/ static kernel mapping moved to vmalloc
> space.
>
> Changes currently done have a couple of platform specific things, this
> has to be modified to make it multiplatform friendly (also to be taken
> care is ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT case).

Nice!

> Module address space has to be taken care as well.

What do you currently do with the module address space? I suppose the
easiest way is to just always put modules into vmalloc space, as we already
do with CONFIG_ARM_MODULE_PLTS when the special area gets full,
but that could be optimized once the rest works.

Arnd

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