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[PATCH v3 RESEND 06/17] ARM: LPAE: use signed arithmetic for mask definitions

From: Russell King - ARM Linux <hidden>
Date: 2012-09-24 13:54:59
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:56:04AM -0400, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:
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This patch applies to PAGE_MASK, PMD_MASK, and PGDIR_MASK, where forcing
unsigned long math truncates the mask at the 32-bits.  This clearly does bad
things on PAE systems.

This patch fixes this problem by defining these masks as signed quantities.
We then rely on sign extension to do the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Andrianov <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <redacted>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/page.h           |    2 +-
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h |    6 +++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/page.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/page.h
index ecf9019..1e0fe08 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/page.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 /* PAGE_SHIFT determines the page size */
 #define PAGE_SHIFT		12
 #define PAGE_SIZE		(_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
-#define PAGE_MASK		(~(PAGE_SIZE-1))
+#define PAGE_MASK		(~((1 << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1))
It's strange.  Every other platform in the kernel, including those with
PAE, manage to get away with defining PAGE_MASK as the original above
(see asm-generic/pgtable.h)  Why is ARM any different?

Note that PAGE_MASK gets used@the moment on ARM for both virtual and
physical addresses.  x86 has PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK for masking physical
addresses.  Maybe we should adopt the same approach?

Whatever, I feel that we should not deviate from the established
definitions across every other architecture.
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 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
index b249035..ae39d11 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -48,16 +48,16 @@
 #define PMD_SHIFT		21
 
 #define PMD_SIZE		(1UL << PMD_SHIFT)
-#define PMD_MASK		(~(PMD_SIZE-1))
+#define PMD_MASK		(~((1 << PMD_SHIFT) - 1))
 #define PGDIR_SIZE		(1UL << PGDIR_SHIFT)
-#define PGDIR_MASK		(~(PGDIR_SIZE-1))
+#define PGDIR_MASK		(~((1 << PGDIR_SHIFT) - 1))
 
 /*
  * section address mask and size definitions.
  */
 #define SECTION_SHIFT		21
 #define SECTION_SIZE		(1UL << SECTION_SHIFT)
-#define SECTION_MASK		(~(SECTION_SIZE-1))
+#define SECTION_MASK		(~((1 << SECTION_SHIFT) - 1))
These masks are applied to a _virtual_ kernel address, not the physical
addresses,  Even with LPAE, the virtual address space is still 32-bit.

So this is definitely wrong.
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