[PATCH 0/6] arm64/head: Cleanups for __create_page_tables()

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Mon Jun 27 03:17:42 PDT 2022


Hi Anshuman,

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 03:05:20PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 5/18/22 12:22, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 05:18, Anshuman Khandual
> > <anshuman.khandual at arm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> This cleanup series is a precursor before carving out idmap_pg_dir creation
> >> from overall __create_page_table(). This series is derived from an original
> >> work from Mark Rutland.
> >>
> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git/log/?h=arm64/pgtable/idmap
> >>
> >> This series applies on v5.18-rc4
> >>
> >> Mark Rutland (6):
> >>   arm64: don't override idmap t0sz
> >>   arm64: head: remove __PHYS_OFFSET
> >>   arm64: head: clarify `populate_entries`
> >>   arm64: head: clarify `compute_indices`
> >>   arm64: head: clarify `map_memory`
> >>   arm64: head: clarify commentary for __create_page_tables
> >>
> > 
> > Hello Anshuman,
> > 
> > I submitted a fairly sizable stack of head.S changes recently, much of
> > which overlaps with this series, and which already splits off ID map
> > creation from the creation of early swapper.
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220411094824.4176877-1-ardb@kernel.org/
> > 
> > Let's align instead of working on this in parallel, shall we?
> 
> Hello Ard,
> 
> Sure. I will go through the series and align as required.

I've queued most of Ard's series now (for-next/boot), so please see if you
think any of the changes here are still relevant and post a new series based
on that.

Thanks,

Will



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