ARM: dts: bcm283x: Reserve first page for firmware
authorPhil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>
Mon, 8 May 2017 15:30:18 +0000 (16:30 +0100)
committerRaspbian kernel package updater <root@raspbian.org>
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:37:48 +0000 (17:37 +0000)
commite0783abb8e8ef6f938b3f251f33458c927dacf34
treedb2ac4d0733b829959307a1a3d7fa95d612bbd6c
parent0c08509abaffd66d72c13ec7ed8411cc8fd761b2
ARM: dts: bcm283x: Reserve first page for firmware

The Raspberry Pi startup stub files for multi-core BCM27XX processors
make the secondary CPUs spin until the corresponding mailbox is
written. These stubs are loaded at physical address 0x00000xxx (as seen
by the ARMs), but this page will be reused by the kernel unless it is
explicitly reserved, causing the waiting cores to execute random code.

Use the /memreserve/ Device Tree directive to mark the first page as
off-limits to the kernel.

See: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1989

Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>
arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dts
arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x.dtsi