From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V2] arm64: mm: Create gigabyte kernel logical mappings where possible
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 10:58:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140506095850.GA23957@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399043829-9036-1-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org>
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 04:17:09PM +0100, Steve Capper wrote:
> We have the capability to map 1GB level 1 blocks when using a 4K
> granule.
>
> This patch adjusts the create_mapping logic s.t. when mapping physical
> memory on boot, we attempt to use a 1GB block if both the VA and PA
> start and end are 1GB aligned. This both reduces the levels of lookup
> required to resolve a kernel logical address, as well as reduces TLB
> pressure on cores that support 1GB TLB entries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
I think you need to patch kern_addr_valid as well for this (we recently
pushed a patch to detect pmd block mappings).
--
Catalin
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2014-05-02 15:17 [PATCH V2] arm64: mm: Create gigabyte kernel logical mappings where possible Steve Capper
2014-05-06 9:58 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2014-05-06 10:16 ` Steve Capper
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