[PATCH 2/2] arm64: Mark kernel page ranges contiguous

[Jeremy Linton]

On 02/12/2016 11:58 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:

(trimming)

> All create_mapping_late() calls should be performed with the same
> physical/virtual start/end as earlier "chunk" mappings, and thus should
> never result in a fuse/split or translation change -- only permission
> changes (which we believe do not result in TLB conflicts, or we'd need
> to do far more work to fix those up).
>
> If we split/fuse in any case other than EFI runtime table creation, that
> is a bug that we need to fix. If you're seeing a case we do that, then
> please let me know!

We are saying the same thing, and right now the biggest violator is 
probably the .rodata patch I just posted!