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Hello Serge,

On 16/11/2020 23:31, Serge Semin wrote:
>> As completely unrelated optimization I can remove the same memblock_add() of the
>> kernel sections from the Octeon platform code. 
> Why not as long as it will work. AFAICS the octeon platform code does
> some kernel start address adjustment while the generic MIPS code
> doesn't. Are you sure using the generic version for octeon won't cause
> any problem?

as I interpret this adjustment, this is open-coded virt_to_phys.
In my tests both code blocks reserve the same memory (well, generic code claims the rest of the last page,
and I'm going to fix this).

-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.