[PATCH v2 0/3] arm64: simplify fixmap code
Will Deacon
will at kernel.org
Tue Apr 11 11:37:25 PDT 2023
On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 16:27:56 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Currently arm64's fixmap code tries to use 2M blocks to map the FDT when
> 4K pages are in use. We do so for a number of historical reasons largely
> boiling down to "it was simpler at the time", but there's no functional
> or performance reason why we must use 2M block mappings for the FDT, and
> using 2M blocks complicates the code and causes some potential issues
> (e.g. mismatched aliases with memory surrounding the FDT).
>
> [...]
Applied to arm64 (for-next/mm), thanks!
[1/3] arm64: add FIXADDR_TOT_{START,SIZE}
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/32f5b6995f79
[2/3] arm64: mm: move fixmap code to its own file
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/b97547761b02
[3/3] arm64: mm: always map fixmap at page granularity
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/414c109bdf49
Cheers,
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