[PATCH 1/6] arm64: mm: Add __virt_to_idmap() to keep kvm build happy

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Nov 15 08:34:28 EST 2013


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:37:41PM +0000, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> ARM kvm code will make use of __virt_to_idmap() on arm32
> machines as hardware interconnect supported alias of physical
> memory for idmap purposes. The same code is shared with arm64
> bit and hence will break the builds. So we add __virt_to_idmap()
> which is just __virt_to_phys() on arm64 bit to keep build happy.
> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>

BTW, there is normally no space between the Cc and Signed-off-by lines.

> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h |    8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> index 3776217..d9341ee 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> @@ -75,6 +75,14 @@
>  #define __phys_to_virt(x)	((unsigned long)((x) - PHYS_OFFSET + PAGE_OFFSET))
>  
>  /*
> + * Added to keep arm64 kvm build working which shares code with
> + * 32bit port. ARM kvm code makes use of __virt_to_idmap() on arm32
> + * machines as hardware interconnect supported alias of physical
> + * memory for idmap purposes.
> + */
> +#define virt_to_idmap(x)	__virt_to_phys(x)

There are consistency issues with the use of underscores before
__virt_to_idmap. And I think you can simply say something like "Required
by ARM KVM code". The explanation on why really belongs to the 32-bit
arm code.

-- 
Catalin



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