On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 04:40:24PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > walk_page_range() is going to be allowed to walk page tables other than > those of user space. For this it needs to know when it has reached a > 'leaf' entry in the page tables. This information will be provided by the > p?d_large() functions/macros. > > For arm64, we already have p?d_sect() macros which we can reuse for > p?d_large(). > > pud_sect() is defined as a dummy function when CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS < 3 > or CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES is defined. However when the kernel is > configured this way then architecturally it isn't allowed to have a > large page that this level, and any code using these page walking macros > is implicitly relying on the page size/number of levels being the same as > the kernel. So it is safe to reuse this for p?d_large() as it is an > architectural restriction. > > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> > Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.pr...@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
