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SubjectRe: [PATCHv2 1/3] arm64: Drop alloc function from create_mapping
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 11:34:50AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 30 January 2016 at 00:46, Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> > create_mapping is only used in fixmap_remap_fdt. All the create_mapping
> > calls need to happen on existing translation table pages without
> > additional allocations. Rather than have an alloc function be called
> > and fail, just set it to NULL and catch it's use. Also change
>
> s/it's/its/
>
> > the name to create_mapping_noalloc to better capture what exactly is
> > going on.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
>
> With one nit below:
> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

[...]

> > +/*
> > + * This function is for mapping using existing sections only.
>
> Could you improve this comment? 'existing sections' does not quite
> cover what we expect to deal with imo
> > + */
> > +static void __init create_mapping_noalloc(phys_addr_t phys, unsigned long virt,
> > phys_addr_t size, pgprot_t prot)

Perhaps:

/*
* This function can only be used to modify existing table entries,
* without allocating new levels of table. Note that this permits the
* creation of new section or page entries.
*/

Either way:

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Thanks for putting this together!

Mark.

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