[PATCH 4/4] mm: drop HIGHPTE support altogether
Linus Walleij
linus.walleij at linaro.org
Wed Dec 11 05:53:11 PST 2024
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 5:06 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> With both x86 and arm having dropped CONFIG_HIGHPTE support, no
> architecture is left using it, so remove the remnants in common code.
>
> It is likely that further cleanups are possible in the page table
> code but those are not obvious from the config options.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
Mapping PTEs in highmem makes no sense to me, it's better
that we try other solutions to move away from highmem use
altogether.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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