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

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Tue May 17 23:52:46 PDT 2022


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?

Kind regards,
Ard.



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