[PATCH 2/6] arm64: Add function to create identity mappings

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Jan 22 12:39:28 EST 2014


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:29:06PM +0000, Mark Salter wrote:
> +void __init create_id_mapping(phys_addr_t addr, phys_addr_t size)
> +{
> +	pgd_t *pgd = &idmap_pg_dir[pgd_index(addr)];
> +
> +	if (pgd >= &idmap_pg_dir[ARRAY_SIZE(idmap_pg_dir)]) {
> +		pr_warn("BUG: not creating id mapping for 0x%016llx\n", addr);
> +		return;
> +	}

The condition above is always false since pgd_index() already ands the
index with (PTRS_PER_PGD - 1). Better check addr against something like
(PTRS_PER_PGD * PGDIR_SIZE) (for clarity, you could do other shifts,
doesn't really matter).

-- 
Catalin



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