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

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Fri Nov 15 10:31:58 EST 2013


On Friday 15 November 2013 09:58 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 02:55:50PM +0000, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> On Friday 15 November 2013 08:34 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:37:41PM +0000, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>>>>  /*
>>>> + * 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.
>>>
>> Will update the comment as you suggested. Do you want me to rename the
>> macros as well. I need to do update some more code for that.
> 
> The macro name should be whatever is in arch/arm/ but the comment and
> the macro disagree here.
> 
Damn .... I should have read it carefully. The comment is using wrong
name. Sorry.

regards,
Santosh



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