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Date:   Wed, 2 Nov 2016 17:56:42 -0600
From:   Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 5/6] arm64: Use __pa_symbol for _end

On 11/02/2016 04:52 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 03:00:53PM -0600, Laura Abbott wrote:
>>
>> __pa_symbol is technically the marco that should be used for kernel
>> symbols. Switch to this as a pre-requisite for DEBUG_VIRTUAL.
>
> Nit: s/marco/macro/
>
> I see there are some other uses of __pa() that look like they could/should be
> __pa_symbol(), e.g. in mark_rodata_ro().
>
> I guess strictly speaking those need to be updated to? Or is there a reason
> that we should not?
>

If the concept of __pa_symbol is okay then yes I think all uses of __pa
should eventually be converted for consistency and debugging.

> Thanks,
> Mark.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>> index 212c4d1..3236eb0 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>> @@ -209,8 +209,8 @@ void __init arm64_memblock_init(void)
>>  	 * linear mapping. Take care not to clip the kernel which may be
>>  	 * high in memory.
>>  	 */
>> -	memblock_remove(max_t(u64, memstart_addr + linear_region_size, __pa(_end)),
>> -			ULLONG_MAX);
>> +	memblock_remove(max_t(u64, memstart_addr + linear_region_size,
>> +			__pa_symbol(_end)), ULLONG_MAX);
>>  	if (memstart_addr + linear_region_size < memblock_end_of_DRAM()) {
>>  		/* ensure that memstart_addr remains sufficiently aligned */
>>  		memstart_addr = round_up(memblock_end_of_DRAM() - linear_region_size,
>> --
>> 2.10.1
>>