Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH] arm64: Add support for configuring the translation granule

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On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 03:52:29PM +0000, Nikos Nikoleris wrote:
> Make the translation granule configurable for arm64. arm64 supports
> page sizes of 4K, 16K and 64K. By default, arm64 is configured with
> 64K pages. configure has been extended with a new argument:
> 
>  --page-shift=(12|14|16)
> 
> which allows the user to set the page shift and therefore the page
> size for arm64. Using the --page-shift for any other architecture
> results an error message.
> 
> To allow for smaller page sizes and 42b VA, this change adds support
> for 4-level and 3-level page tables. At compile time, we determine how
> many levels in the page tables we needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@xxxxxxx>

Thanks for this Nikos! It looks good to me and I'll give it a test
drive soon.

drew




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