Re: [PATCH] arm64: Disallow combination of ARCH_XGENE and 16K page size

Jeremy Linton
2016-01-28T14:50:11Z

On 01/28/2016 05:20 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:08:20AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:34:41AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:

>> I thought there was also a suggestion that we could fail gracefully in
>> the EFI stub if we detected an unsupported page size?
>
> Yup. There are other things we could/should test, too.
>
> I believe Jeremy had a patch, but due to churn in that area it didn't
> get picked up.

I will clean-up and re-post that patch in the future too. It was fairly
trivial so if someone feels the need for immediately...

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/14/948

IMHO, The main sticking point initially was that the correct place for
the check was a moving target. That problem has been fixed, so it should
be easy to move it.