[PATCH 2/6] arm64: head: remove __PHYS_OFFSET

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Tue May 17 20:17:21 PDT 2022


From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>

It's very easy to confuse __PHYS_OFFSET and PHYS_OFFSET. To clarify
things, let's remove __PHYS_OFFSET and use KERNEL_START directly, with
comments to show that we're using physical address, as we do for other
objects.

At the same time, update the comment regarding the kernel entry address
to mention __pa(KERNEL_START) rather than __pa(PAGE_OFFSET).

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 6a98f1a38c29..aaad76680495 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -37,8 +37,6 @@
 
 #include "efi-header.S"
 
-#define __PHYS_OFFSET	KERNEL_START
-
 #if (PAGE_OFFSET & 0x1fffff) != 0
 #error PAGE_OFFSET must be at least 2MB aligned
 #endif
@@ -52,7 +50,7 @@
  *   x0 = physical address to the FDT blob.
  *
  * This code is mostly position independent so you call this at
- * __pa(PAGE_OFFSET).
+ * __pa(KERNEL_START).
  *
  * Note that the callee-saved registers are used for storing variables
  * that are useful before the MMU is enabled. The allocations are described
@@ -91,7 +89,7 @@
 SYM_CODE_START(primary_entry)
 	bl	preserve_boot_args
 	bl	init_kernel_el			// w0=cpu_boot_mode
-	adrp	x23, __PHYS_OFFSET
+	adrp	x23, KERNEL_START		// __pa(KERNEL_START)
 	and	x23, x23, MIN_KIMG_ALIGN - 1	// KASLR offset, defaults to 0
 	bl	set_cpu_boot_mode_flag
 	bl	__create_page_tables
@@ -420,7 +418,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(__create_page_tables)
 /*
  * The following fragment of code is executed with the MMU enabled.
  *
- *   x0 = __PHYS_OFFSET
+ *   x0 = __pa(KERNEL_START)
  */
 SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__primary_switched)
 	adr_l	x4, init_task
@@ -870,7 +868,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__primary_switch)
 	bl	__relocate_kernel
 #ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
 	ldr	x8, =__primary_switched
-	adrp	x0, __PHYS_OFFSET
+	adrp	x0, KERNEL_START		// __pa(KERNEL_START)
 	blr	x8
 
 	/*
@@ -893,6 +891,6 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__primary_switch)
 #endif
 #endif
 	ldr	x8, =__primary_switched
-	adrp	x0, __PHYS_OFFSET
+	adrp	x0, KERNEL_START		// __pa(KERNEL_START)
 	br	x8
 SYM_FUNC_END(__primary_switch)
-- 
2.20.1




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