From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753673AbbIBJnF (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2015 05:43:05 -0400 Received: from eu-smtp-delivery-143.mimecast.com ([207.82.80.143]:29005 "EHLO eu-smtp-delivery-143.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752777AbbIBJnD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2015 05:43:03 -0400 Message-ID: <55E6C4A2.7080307@arm.com> Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:42:58 +0100 From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ard Biesheuvel CC: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , KVM devel mailing list , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Mark Rutland , Marc Zyngier Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] arm64: Handle section maps for swapper/idmap References: <1439465645-22584-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <1439465645-22584-3-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> In-Reply-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Sep 2015 09:42:58.0722 (UTC) FILETIME=[C075E820:01D0E563] X-MC-Unique: 9nXu4i0NTRWxdz-DuV92fg-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/09/15 10:38, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 13 August 2015 at 13:33, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: >> From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" >> >> 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