arm64: mm: allocate pagetables anywhere
authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:45:09 +0000 (11:45 +0000)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:10:46 +0000 (15:10 +0000)
commitcdef5f6e9e0e5ee397759b664a9f875ff59ccf01
tree4326779c2b77b9f2f43a4e6084bc4b437b9990cd
parentf4710445458c0a1bd1c3c014ada2e7d7dc7b882f
arm64: mm: allocate pagetables anywhere

Now that create_mapping uses fixmap slots to modify pte, pmd, and pud
entries, we can access page tables anywhere in physical memory,
regardless of the extent of the linear mapping.

Given that, we no longer need to limit memblock allocations during page
table creation, and can leave the limit as its default
MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE.

We never add memory which will fall outside of the linear map range
given phys_offset and MAX_MEMBLOCK_ADDR are configured appropriately, so
any tables we create will fall in the linear map of the final tables.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c