[RFC PATCH 04/20] arm64: mm: assume PAGE SIZE for page table allocator
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Dec 10 06:23:45 PST 2015
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:08:40PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 12:44:39PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > We pass a size parameter to early_alloc and late_alloc, but these are
> > only ever used to allocate single pages. In late_alloc we always
> > allocate a single page.
> >
> > Remove the redundant size parameter.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> > Cc: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>
> > Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott at fedoraproject.org>
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 27 ++++++++++++---------------
> > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> Looks sensible to me. Cosmetic nit, but we could we rename these to
> early_page_alloc/late_page_alloc instead, please?
Sure. I'll also s/alloc/page_alloc/ for the function pointer. Luckily
this doesn't clash with the usual alloc_page function.
I'll also fix up the zero page init, as I forgot to remove the PAGE_SIZE
parameter in that early_alloc() call there.
Thanks,
Mark.
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