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From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/3] arm64: relocatable kernel proof of concept
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:43:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150317164353.GN23340@leverpostej> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu8H61BSh6j7jd-MYXh6jS=ePPTj11L5Rs-Ce923te6mUg@mail.gmail.com>

> > Also, if you use DEBUG_RODATA the kernel won't be mapped with 1GB
> > mappings after early boot anyway.
> >
> 
> That's not the point. The point is that, since physical memory starts
> at the base of the kernel image, as far as the kernel is concerned,
> the relative alignment of the virtual and physical address spaces may
> result in *all* of memory being mapped using 2 MB sections rather than
> 1 GB blocks.

Ah. Good point.

Another reason to split the text and linear mappings ;)

Mark.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-17 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-16 15:23 [RFC PATCH 0/3] arm64: relocatable kernel proof of concept Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-16 15:23 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] arm64: head.S: replace early literals with constant immediates Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-16 17:14   ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-17  7:01     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-16 15:23 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] arm64: add support for relocatable kernel Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-16 15:23 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] arm64/efi: use relocated kernel Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-16 16:09 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] arm64: relocatable kernel proof of concept Mark Rutland
2015-03-16 16:45   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-16 17:33     ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-16 17:43       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-17 16:20         ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-16 23:19 ` Kees Cook
2015-03-17  7:38   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-17 16:35     ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-17 16:40       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-17 16:43         ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2015-03-23 15:36           ` [PATCH 0/4] RFC: split text and linear mappings using tagged pointers Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-23 15:36             ` [PATCH 1/4] arm64: use tagged pointers to distinguish kernel text from the linear mapping Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-25 14:04               ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-26  1:27               ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-23 15:36             ` [PATCH 2/4] arm64: fixmap: move translation tables to dedicated region Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-26  1:28               ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-26  6:20                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-30 14:34                   ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-23 15:36             ` [PATCH 3/4] arm64: move kernel text below PAGE_OFFSET Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-25 14:10               ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-23 15:36             ` [PATCH 4/4] arm64: align PHYS_OFFSET to block size Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-25 14:14               ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-26  6:23                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-25 14:59               ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-26  6:22                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-27 13:16                   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-30 13:49                     ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-30 14:00                       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-30 14:55                         ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-30 15:00                         ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-30 18:08                           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-31 14:49                             ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-31 16:19                               ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-31 16:46                                 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-26  1:26             ` [PATCH 0/4] RFC: split text and linear mappings using tagged pointers Mark Rutland
2015-03-26  6:09               ` Ard Biesheuvel

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