Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 6 authors, 2021-05-06

Re: [PATCH V2] mm: Define default value for FIRST_USER_ADDRESS

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: 2021-05-06 10:27:47
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:47:34AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
Currently most platforms define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS as 0UL duplication the
same code all over. Instead just define a generic default value (i.e 0UL)
for FIRST_USER_ADDRESS and let the platforms override when required. This
makes it much cleaner with reduced code.

The default FIRST_USER_ADDRESS here would be skipped in <linux/pgtable.h>
when the given platform overrides its value via <asm/pgtable.h>.

Cc: Richard Henderson <redacted>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <redacted>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Cain <redacted>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <redacted>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <redacted>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <redacted>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <redacted>
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 47027796c2f9..f6ab8b64967e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@
 
 #define vmemmap			((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START - (memstart_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT))
 
-#define FIRST_USER_ADDRESS	0UL
-
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
 #include <asm/cmpxchg.h>
For arm64:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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