[PATCH V2] arm64/mm: Drop ARM64_KERNEL_USES_PMD_MAPS

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Tue Nov 8 09:38:37 PST 2022


On Tue, 8 Nov 2022 09:14:06 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Currently ARM64_KERNEL_USES_PMD_MAPS is an unnecessary abstraction. Kernel
> mapping at PMD (aka huge page aka block) level, is only applicable with 4K
> base page, which makes it 2MB aligned, a necessary requirement for linear
> mapping and physical memory start address. This can be easily achieved by
> directly checking against base page size itself. This drops off the macro
> ARM64_KERNE_USES_PMD_MAPS which is redundant.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/trivial), thanks!

[1/1] arm64/mm: Drop ARM64_KERNEL_USES_PMD_MAPS
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/38e4b6605e5c

Cheers,
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Will

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