[PATCH] arm64/fixmap: make notes of fixed_addresses more precisely

Pingfan Liu kernelfans at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 09:43:22 EDT 2020


These 'compile-time allocated' memory buffers can occupy more than one
page. So improve the note about it.

Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans at gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
To: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h
index f987b8a..318aee1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
  * in the boot process.
  *
  * These 'compile-time allocated' memory buffers are
- * page-sized. Use set_fixmap(idx,phys) to associate
+ * page-sized (or larger if used with an increment
+ * higher than 1). Use set_fixmap(idx,phys) to associate
  * physical memory with fixmap indices.
  *
  */
-- 
2.7.5




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