Re: [PATCHv4 07/12] arm64: Simplify NR_FIX_BTMAPS calculation

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Fri Oct 16 2015 - 14:50:58 EST


On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 06:06:16PM +0100, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
>
> Since NR_FIX_BTMAPS based on the fixed size of 256K, lets use
> a formula to derive it for a given page size, rather than defining
> for each page size.

No need to respin, but I'd prefer the wording:

----
We choose NR_FIX_BTMAPS such that each slot (NR_FIX_BTMAPS * PAGE_SIZE)
can address 256K.

Use division to derive NR_FIX_BTMAPS rather than defining it for each
page size.
----

Thanks for spinning this into a patch!

Mark.

>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h | 7 ++-----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h
> index 8b9884c..3097045 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
>
> #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/sizes.h>
> #include <asm/boot.h>
> #include <asm/page.h>
>
> @@ -55,11 +56,7 @@ enum fixed_addresses {
> * Temporary boot-time mappings, used by early_ioremap(),
> * before ioremap() is functional.
> */
> -#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES
> -#define NR_FIX_BTMAPS 4
> -#else
> -#define NR_FIX_BTMAPS 64
> -#endif
> +#define NR_FIX_BTMAPS (SZ_256K / PAGE_SIZE)
> #define FIX_BTMAPS_SLOTS 7
> #define TOTAL_FIX_BTMAPS (NR_FIX_BTMAPS * FIX_BTMAPS_SLOTS)
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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