[PATCH 02/14] arm64: Handle section maps for swapper/idmap

Suzuki K. Poulose Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com
Wed Sep 2 02:42:58 PDT 2015


On 02/09/15 10:38, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 13 August 2015 at 13:33, Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com> wrote:
>> From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
>>
>> We use section maps with 4K page size to create the
>> swapper/idmaps. So far we have used !64K or 4K checks
>> to handle the case where we use the section maps. This
>> patch adds a symbol to make it clear those cases.
>>
>
> That sentence does not make sense.

I agree. How about :

"This patch adds a new symbol, 'ARM64_SWAPPER_USES_SECTION_MAPS', to
handle cases where we use section maps, instead of using the page size
symbols."

Suzuki





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