[PATCH] arm64: mm: check at build time that PAGE_OFFSET divides the VA space evenly
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Mar 2 01:49:09 PST 2016
On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 09:47:13AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Commit 8439e62a1561 ("arm64: mm: use bit ops rather than arithmetic in
> pa/va translations") changed the boundary check against PAGE_OFFSET from
> an arithmetic comparison to a bit test. This means we now silently assume
> that PAGE_OFFSET is a power of 2 that divides the kernel virtual address
> space into two equal halves. So make that assumption explicit.
Applied. Thanks.
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Catalin
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