On 04/04/13 00:14, Christoffer Dall wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 02:25:10PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> The current code for creating HYP mapping doesn't like to wrap >> around zero, which prevents from mapping anything into the last >> page of the virtual address space. >> >> It doesn't take much effort to remove this limitation, making >> the code more consistent with the rest of the kernel in the process. > > This is quite funny, the code used to behave like this, but > reviewers said that this was old fashioned mm-style code that was > unwanted and wrapping around zero should be avoided for all costs :) My original attempt at this series was using the very last page of the memory, and it took me a while to notice that the code couldn't map anything in the last page. Just for this reason, the code needed to be fixed. > In any case, I welcome the familiarity. Amen. M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
