From: Suzuki.Poulose@arm•com (Suzuki K. Poulose)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCHv3 02/11] arm64: Handle section maps for swapper/idmap
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:08:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <561E6FFB.3020005@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151014145158.GA4422@leverpostej>
On 14/10/15 15:51, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>>> +/* With 4K pages, we use section maps. */
>> /*
>> * ARM64 kernel is guaranteed to be loaded at 2M aligned
>> * address (as per booting requirements). Hence we can use
>> * section mapping with 4K (section size = 2M) and not with
>> * 16K(section size = 32M) or 64K (section size = 512M).
>> */
>
> That sounds much better. I hadn't figured out why myself, so thanks for
> the explanation :)
>
> However, there's one minor nit: the start of memory below the kernel is
> 2M aligned, but the offset means that the kernel itself is not loaded at
> a 2M aligned address.
Oh yes
>
> So how about:
>
> /*
> * The linear mapping and the start of memory are both 2M aligned (per
> * the arm64 booting.txt requirements). Hence we can use section mapping
> * with 4K (section size = 2M) but not with 16K (section size = 32M) or
> * 64K (section size = 512M).
> */
Will add this
Thanks
Suzuki
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-14 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-14 11:20 [PATCHv3 00/11] arm64: 16K translation granule support Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 01/11] arm64: Move swapper pagetable definitions Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 11:42 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 12:41 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 02/11] arm64: Handle section maps for swapper/idmap Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 12:06 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 13:21 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 14:51 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 15:08 ` Suzuki K. Poulose [this message]
2015-10-14 15:14 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 03/11] arm64: Introduce helpers for page table levels Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 17:07 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15 9:35 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 10:37 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15 11:40 ` Christoffer Dall
2015-10-15 11:37 ` Christoffer Dall
2015-10-15 12:44 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15 13:14 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 13:30 ` Christoffer Dall
2015-10-15 13:48 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 14:15 ` Christoffer Dall
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 04/11] arm64: Calculate size for idmap_pg_dir at compile time Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 17:12 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 05/11] arm64: Handle 4 level page table for swapper Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 17:15 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 06/11] arm64: Clean config usages for page size Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 07/11] arm64: Kconfig: Fix help text about AArch32 support with 64K pages Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 17:16 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 08/11] arm64: Check for selected granule support Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 17:24 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 17:32 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15 9:45 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 10:39 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-14 21:13 ` Jeremy Linton
2015-10-15 9:48 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 10:45 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15 11:25 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 12:37 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15 12:58 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-16 8:03 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-15 14:47 ` Jeremy Linton
2015-10-15 15:02 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 15:11 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-16 8:11 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 09/11] arm64: Add page size to the kernel image header Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 17:27 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15 9:19 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 10/11] arm64: Add 16K page size support Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 15:40 ` Jeremy Linton
2015-10-14 15:53 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 14:06 ` Mark Rutland
2015-10-15 14:48 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-15 15:36 ` Steve Capper
2015-10-15 15:48 ` Suzuki K. Poulose
2015-10-14 11:20 ` [PATCHv3 11/11] arm64: 36 bit VA Suzuki K. Poulose
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