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Re: [PATCH v5 06/13] xen/arm64: Fold setup_fixmap() to create_page_tables()


  • To: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
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  • Thread-topic: [PATCH v5 06/13] xen/arm64: Fold setup_fixmap() to create_page_tables()


> On Aug 21, 2023, at 17:22, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Henry,
> 
> On 14/08/2023 05:25, Henry Wang wrote:
>> The original assembly setup_fixmap() is actually doing two seperate
>> tasks, one is enabling the early UART when earlyprintk on, and the
>> other is to set up the fixmap (even when earlyprintk is off).
>> Per discussion in [1], since commit
>> 9d267c049d92 ("xen/arm64: Rework the memory layout"), there is no
>> chance that the fixmap and the mapping of early UART will clash with
>> the 1:1 mapping. Therefore the mapping of both the fixmap and the
>> early UART can be moved to the end of create_pagetables().
>> No functional change intended.
> 
> I would drop this sentence because the fixmap is now prepared much earlier in 
> the code. So there is technically some functional change.

Sure, I will drop this sentence in v6.

> 
>> [1] 
>> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/78862bb8-fd7f-5a51-a7ae-3c5b5998ed80@xxxxxxx/
>> Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Kind regards,
Henry

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Julien Grall




 


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