[PATCH 2/7] ARM: KVM: fix HYP mapping limitations around zero

[Marc Zyngier]

On 04/04/13 00:14, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 02:25:10PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> The current code for creating HYP mapping doesn't like to wrap
>> around zero, which prevents from mapping anything into the last
>> page of the virtual address space.
>>
>> It doesn't take much effort to remove this limitation, making
>> the code more consistent with the rest of the kernel in the process.
> 
> This is quite funny, the code used to behave like this, but
> reviewers said that this was old fashioned mm-style code that was
> unwanted and wrapping around zero should be avoided for all costs :)

My original attempt at this series was using the very last page of the
memory, and it took me a while to notice that the code couldn't map
anything in the last page.

Just for this reason, the code needed to be fixed.

> In any case, I welcome the familiarity.

Amen.

	M.
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