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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Mon, 11 May 2020 17:29:29 +0200
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Subject: Re: ARM: static kernel in vmalloc space (was Re: [PATCH 0/3] Highmem
 support for 32-bit RISC-V)
To:     afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com>
Cc:     Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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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