From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64/mm: remove unnecessary boundary check
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:47:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160226094718.GA29125@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456371874-19826-1-git-send-email-miles.chen@mediatek.com>
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:44:34AM +0800, miles.chen at mediatek.com wrote:
> From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
>
> Remove the unnecessary boundary check since there is a huge
> gap between user and kernel address that they would never overlap.
> (arm64 does not have enough levels of page tables to cover 64-bit
> virtual address)
>
> See Documentation/arm64/memory.txt
>
> Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-26 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-25 3:44 [PATCH] arm64/mm: remove unnecessary boundary check miles.chen at mediatek.com
2016-02-26 9:47 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2016-02-26 13:40 ` Catalin Marinas
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