From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:14:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] arm64: align PHYS_OFFSET to block size In-Reply-To: <1427125016-3873-5-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> References: <20150317164353.GN23340@leverpostej> <1427125016-3873-5-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20150325141409.GD26903@localhost> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 04:36:56PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > This aligns PHYS_OFFSET down to an alignment that allows system > RAM to be mapped using the largest blocks available, i.e., 1 GB > blocks on 4 KB pages or 512 MB blocks on 64 KB pages. Does this assume that the platform RAM starts at such block aligned addresses? If not, is the unaligned range ignored? -- Catalin