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BMIPS is one of the few platforms that do change the exception base. After commit2dcb396454("memblock: do not start bottom-up allocations with kernel_end") we started seeing BMIPS boards fail to boot with the built-in FDT being corrupted. Before the cited commit, early allocations would be in the [kernel_end, RAM_END] range, but after commit they would be within [RAM_START + PAGE_SIZE, RAM_END]. The custom exception base handler that is installed by bmips_ebase_setup() done for BMIPS5000 CPUs ends-up trampling on the memory region allocated by unflatten_and_copy_device_tree() thus corrupting the FDT used by the kernel. To fix this, we need to perform an early reservation of the custom exception space. Additional we reserve the first 4k (1k for R3k) for either normal exception vector space (legacy CPUs) or special vectors like cache exceptions. Huge thanks to Serge for analysing and proposing a solution to this issue. Fixes:2dcb396454("memblock: do not start bottom-up allocations with kernel_end") Reported-by: Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev@gmail.com> Debugged-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.