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    [POWERPC] pseries: Force 4k update_flash block and list sizes · ae883cab
    John Rose authored
    The enablement of 64k pages on pseries platforms exposed a bug in
    the RTAS mechanism for updating firmware.  RTAS assumes 4k for flash
    block and list sizes, and use of any other sizes results in a failure,
    even though PAPR does not specify any such requirement.
    
    This patch changes the rtas_flash module to force the use of 4k memory
    block and list sizes when preparing and sending a firmware image to
    RTAS.  The rtas_flash function now uses a slab cache of 4k blocks with
    4k alignment, rather than get_zeroed_page(), to allocate the memory for
    the flash blocks and lists.  The 4k alignment requirement is specified
    in PAPR.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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