[PATCH v2 0/3] Type correctness cleanup for ARM64 MMU initialization
Will Deacon
will at kernel.org
Tue Sep 16 14:13:48 PDT 2025
On Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:52:06 -0700, Sam Edwards wrote:
> This is a small series of type correctness and readability improvements for
> ARM64's MMU initialization code. When I first encountered this code, the heavy
> use of u64 to represent both virtual and physical addresses made it difficult
> to understand where the demarcations were. I made most of the changes in this
> series while troubleshooting a different problem (fixed in a separate patch) to
> make that boundary a little clearer. I am submitting it now in the hopes that
> this will improve maintainability and readability for others.
>
> [...]
I must confess, I don't personally see a huge amount of value from these
changes. However, I've probably just got used to things and so if this
would've helped you understand the code when you first came across it
recently then I think it's worth having.
Applied to arm64 (for-next/mm), thanks!
[1/3] arm64: mm: Cast start/end markers to char *, not u64
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/030b3ffbdac7
[2/3] arm64: mm: Make map_fdt() return mapped pointer
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/c56aa9a67a08
[3/3] arm64: mm: Represent physical memory with phys_addr_t and resource_size_t
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/b868fff5b10b
Cheers,
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Will
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