Re: [PATCH v2 08/20] ARM: LPAE: MMU setup for the 3-level page table format

[Catalin Marinas]

On 12 November 2010 18:00, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch adds the MMU initialisation for the LPAE page table format.
> The swapper_pg_dir size with LPAE is 5 rather than 4 pages. The
> __v7_setup function configures the TTBRx split based on the PAGE_OFFSET
> and sets the corresponding TTB control and MAIRx bits (similar to
> PRRR/NMRR for TEX remapping). The 36-bit mappings (supersections) and
> a few other memory types in mmu.c are conditionally compiled.
[...]
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> @@ -45,11 +46,20 @@
>  #error KERNEL_RAM_VADDR must start at 0xXXXX8000
>  #endif
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
> +       /* LPAE requires an additional page for the PGD */
> +#define PG_DIR_SIZE    0x5000
> +#define PTE_WORDS      3
> +#else
> +#define PG_DIR_SIZE    0x4000
> +#define PTE_WORDS      2
> +#endif

This should have been called PTE_ORDER, the PTE_WORDS naming is misleading.

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Catalin
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