Thread (54 messages) 54 messages, 4 authors, 2021-01-24

Re: [PATCH v4 02/21] arm64: Fix outdated TCR setup comment

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: 2021-01-20 18:42:12
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 09:45:14AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
The arm64 kernel has long be able to use more than 39bit VAs.
Since day one, actually. Let's rewrite the offending comment.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
index 1f7ee8c8b7b8..ece785477bdc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
@@ -464,8 +464,8 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(__cpu_setup)
 #endif
 	msr	mair_el1, x5
 	/*
-	 * Set/prepare TCR and TTBR. We use 512GB (39-bit) address range for
-	 * both user and kernel.
+	 * Set/prepare TCR and TTBR. TCR_EL1.T1SZ gets further
+	 * adjusted if the kernel is compiled with 52bit VA support.
I think both T0SZ and T1SZ get updated based on a mismatch between the
kernel configuration and the hardware support. Anyway, I'm not asking
for a detailed comment here, so:

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

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