[PATCH v2 1/4] arm64: use 'segment' rather than 'chunk' to describe mapped kernel regions
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Mar 31 03:55:50 PDT 2016
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 05:43:06PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Replace the poorly defined term chunk with segment, which is a term that is
> already used by the ELF spec to describe contiguous mappings with the same
> permission attributes of statically allocated ranges of an executable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Sounds better to me.
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Mark.
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 14 +++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index f3e5c74233f3..9be2065f8ddb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -471,8 +471,8 @@ void fixup_init(void)
> unmap_kernel_range((u64)__init_begin, (u64)(__init_end - __init_begin));
> }
>
> -static void __init map_kernel_chunk(pgd_t *pgd, void *va_start, void *va_end,
> - pgprot_t prot, struct vm_struct *vma)
> +static void __init map_kernel_segment(pgd_t *pgd, void *va_start, void *va_end,
> + pgprot_t prot, struct vm_struct *vma)
> {
> phys_addr_t pa_start = __pa(va_start);
> unsigned long size = va_end - va_start;
> @@ -499,11 +499,11 @@ static void __init map_kernel(pgd_t *pgd)
> {
> static struct vm_struct vmlinux_text, vmlinux_rodata, vmlinux_init, vmlinux_data;
>
> - map_kernel_chunk(pgd, _stext, __start_rodata, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, &vmlinux_text);
> - map_kernel_chunk(pgd, __start_rodata, _etext, PAGE_KERNEL, &vmlinux_rodata);
> - map_kernel_chunk(pgd, __init_begin, __init_end, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC,
> - &vmlinux_init);
> - map_kernel_chunk(pgd, _data, _end, PAGE_KERNEL, &vmlinux_data);
> + map_kernel_segment(pgd, _stext, __start_rodata, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, &vmlinux_text);
> + map_kernel_segment(pgd, __start_rodata, _etext, PAGE_KERNEL, &vmlinux_rodata);
> + map_kernel_segment(pgd, __init_begin, __init_end, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC,
> + &vmlinux_init);
> + map_kernel_segment(pgd, _data, _end, PAGE_KERNEL, &vmlinux_data);
>
> if (!pgd_val(*pgd_offset_raw(pgd, FIXADDR_START))) {
> /*
> --
> 2.5.0
>
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