Re: [PATCH V4 6/6] arm64: mm: Allow forcing all userspace addresses to 52-bit

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On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 04:41:45PM +0000, Steve Capper wrote:
> On arm64 52-bit VAs are provided to userspace when a hint is supplied to
> mmap. This helps maintain compatibility with software that expects at
> most 48-bit VAs to be returned.
> 
> In order to help identify software that has 48-bit VA assumptions, this
> patch allows one to compile a kernel where 52-bit VAs are returned by
> default on HW that supports it.
> 
> This feature is intended to be for development systems only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>




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