[PATCH 13/11] arm64: Add support for 48-bit VA space with 64KB page configuration

Jungseok Lee jungseoklee85 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 08:50:32 PDT 2014


On Jul 23, 2014, at 12:37 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 04:13:27PM +0100, Jungseok Lee wrote:
>> On Jul 22, 2014, at 00:09 +900 Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>> This patch allows support for 3 levels of page tables with 64KB page 
>>> configuration allowing 48-bit VA space. The pgd is no longer a full 
>>> PAGE_SIZE (PTRS_PER_PGD is 64) and (swapper|idmap)_pg_dir are not fully 
>>> populated (pgd_alloc falls back to kzalloc). 
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> 
>>> --- 
>> 
>> One more step :)
> 
> The last before the upcoming merging window. I also updated the
> pgtable-4levels branch with the latest.

I've checked it out. I will leave a comment ASAP if needed.

>> Are you going to post the next version of this series including [12/11]
>> and [13/11] or finalize the series?
> 
> I wasn't planning to post another series. It's good to get the clean-up
> merged with the change that 48-bit VA now depends on BROKEN until KVM is
> sorted (for 3.18).

I see.

>> In addition, could you put my gmail address in CC in coming patch or
>> the next version? It help me follow up the series easily.
> 
> Do you want me to add any reviewed etc. tags from you?

No, it's okay. What I mean is mailing thread, not tags.

- Jungseok Lee



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