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Re: [PATCH 3/4] arm64: mm: drop unused __pa(__idmap_text_start)

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date: 2021-05-18 12:21:26

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 06:14:04PM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote:
x5 is not used in the following map_memory. Instead,
__pa(__idmap_text_start) is stored in x3 which is used later.

Signed-off-by: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>
It might be worth noting that this hasn't been used since commit:

  0370b31e48454d8c ("arm64: Extend early page table code to allow for larger kernels")

Either way:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Mark.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index b70db34458ec..d266b4c6287d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -354,7 +354,6 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__create_page_tables)
 #endif
 1:
 	ldr_l	x4, idmap_ptrs_per_pgd
-	mov	x5, x3				// __pa(__idmap_text_start)
 	adr_l	x6, __idmap_text_end		// __pa(__idmap_text_end)
 
 	map_memory x0, x1, x3, x6, x7, x3, x4, x10, x11, x12, x13, x14
-- 
2.25.1


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