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Message-ID: <561E7A7D.3020207@arm.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:53:33 +0100
From:	"Suzuki K. Poulose" <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
To:	Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
	will.deacon@....com, mark.rutland@....com, steve.capper@...aro.org,
	marc.zyngier@....com, ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org,
	christoffer.dall@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 10/11] arm64: Add 16K page size support

On 14/10/15 16:40, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> On 10/14/2015 06:20 AM, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h
>> index da32354..736ed4c 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h
>> @@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES
>>   #define PAGE_SHIFT        16
>>   #define CONT_SHIFT        5
>> +#elif defined(CONFIG_ARM64_16K_PAGES)
>> +#define PAGE_SHIFT        14
>> +#define CONT_SHIFT        9
>>   #else
>>   #define PAGE_SHIFT        12
>>   #define CONT_SHIFT        4
>
> Suzuki,
>
> Is CONT_SHIFT correct? I thought it should be 7? The ARM-ARM says that a contiguous 3rd level lookup is 128 entries.
>

Err, you are right. I tested it with 9 and I still got contiguous
mappings. May be because we anyway have 7 contiguous bits and the
kernel text is read-only. I will fix that, thanks for spotting.

Suzuki

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