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Re: [PATCH 2/4] arm64: mm: fix the count comments in compute_indices

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date: 2021-05-18 12:37:52

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 06:14:03PM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote:
'count - 1' is confusing and not comply with the real code running.
'count' actually represents the extra entries required, no need minus 1.

Signed-off-by: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>
This looks right to me, but I'm not all that familiar with this code.

Steve, does this make sense to you?

Mark.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 96873dfa67fd..b70db34458ec 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ SYM_CODE_END(preserve_boot_args)
 	and	\iend, \iend, \istart	// iend = (vend >> shift) & (ptrs - 1)
 	mov	\istart, \ptrs
 	mul	\istart, \istart, \count
-	add	\iend, \iend, \istart	// iend += (count - 1) * ptrs
+	add	\iend, \iend, \istart	// iend += count * ptrs
 					// our entries span multiple tables
 
 	lsr	\istart, \vstart, \shift
-- 
2.25.1


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