[PATCH 2/2] arm64: set MAX_MEMBLOCK_ADDR according to linear region size

[Catalin Marinas]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:34:42AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The linear region size of a 39-bit VA kernel is only 256 GB, which
> may be insufficient to cover all of system RAM, even on platforms
> that have much less than 256 GB of memory but which is laid out
> very sparsely.
> 
> So make sure we clip the memory we will not be able to map before
> installing it into the memblock memory table, by setting
> MAX_MEMBLOCK_ADDR accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
>  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 f800d45ea226..44a59c20e773 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
> @@ -114,6 +114,14 @@ extern phys_addr_t		memstart_addr;
>  #define PHYS_OFFSET		({ memstart_addr; })
>  
>  /*
> + * The maximum physical address that the linear direct mapping
> + * of system RAM can cover. (PAGE_OFFSET can be interpreted as
> + * a 2's complement signed quantity and negated to derive the
> + * maximum size of the linear mapping.)
> + */
> +#define MAX_MEMBLOCK_ADDR	({ memstart_addr - PAGE_OFFSET - 1; })

Would it be easier to understand as just memstart_addr + ~PAGE_OFFSET?

Otherwise:

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>