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>
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 02:50:40 +0000 (02:50 +0000)
commit1954e12c3d1362592ab2f1f34984c1baee77a095
tree9b91d4820911e94513b87035fa9b4ffb56159e83
parent9e09a027629b0b3282e1eb65903472279f333346
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