From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754226AbbJNR2E (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:28:04 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:59818 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753035AbbJNR2B (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:28:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:27:56 +0100 From: Mark Rutland To: "Suzuki K. Poulose" Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, steve.capper@linaro.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, christoffer.dall@linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 09/11] arm64: Add page size to the kernel image header Message-ID: <20151014172756.GJ5041@leverpostej> References: <1444821634-1689-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <1444821634-1689-10-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1444821634-1689-10-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:20:32PM +0100, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: > From: Ard Biesheuvel > > This patch adds the page size to the arm64 kernel image header > so that one can infer the PAGESIZE used by the kernel. This will > be helpful to diagnose failures to boot the kernel with page size > not supported by the CPU. > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel > Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose > Acked-by: Catalin Marinas > Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall > --- > Documentation/arm64/booting.txt | 7 ++++++- > arch/arm64/kernel/image.h | 5 ++++- > 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt > index 7d9d3c2..aaf6d77 100644 > --- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt > +++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt > @@ -104,7 +104,12 @@ Header notes: > - The flags field (introduced in v3.17) is a little-endian 64-bit field > composed as follows: > Bit 0: Kernel endianness. 1 if BE, 0 if LE. > - Bits 1-63: Reserved. > + Bit 1-2: Kernel Page size. > + 0 - Unspecified. > + 1 - 4K > + 2 - 16K > + 3 - 64K > + Bits 3-63: Reserved. > > - When image_size is zero, a bootloader should attempt to keep as much > memory as possible free for use by the kernel immediately after the > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h b/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h > index 6eb8fee..e45759e 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/image.h > @@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ > #define __HEAD_FLAG_BE 0 > #endif > > -#define __HEAD_FLAGS (__HEAD_FLAG_BE << 0) > +#define __HEAD_FLAG_PAGE_SIZE ((PAGE_SHIFT - 10) / 2) > + > +#define __HEAD_FLAGS (__HEAD_FLAG_BE << 0) | \ > + (__HEAD_FLAG_PAGE_SIZE << 1) I'd prefer that we also had brackets around the whole of the __HEAD_FLAGS value, so we don't get caught out later on by some unexpected expansion (though we are safe currently). With that: Acked-by: Mark Rutland Thanks, Mark.