linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv4 05/10] arm64: Use __pa

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Date:   Mon, 5 Dec 2016 16:50:33 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 05/10] arm64: Use __pa_symbol for kernel symbols

On 11/29/2016 10:55 AM, 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 which
> will do bounds checking. As part of this, introduce lm_alias, a
> macro which wraps the __va(__pa(...)) idiom used a few places to
> get the alias.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
> ---
> v4: Stop calling __va early, conversion of a few more sites. I decided against
> wrapping the __p*d_populate calls into new functions since the call sites
> should be limited.
> ---


> -	pud_populate(&init_mm, pud, bm_pmd);
> +	if (pud_none(*pud))
> +		__pud_populate(pud, __pa_symbol(bm_pmd), PMD_TYPE_TABLE);
>  	pmd = fixmap_pmd(addr);
> -	pmd_populate_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, bm_pte);
> +	__pmd_populate(pmd, __pa_symbol(bm_pte), PMD_TYPE_TABLE);

Is there a particular reason why pmd_populate_kernel() is not changed to
use __pa_symbol() instead of using __pa()? The other users in the arm64
kernel is arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate.c which seems to call this against
kernel symbols as well?
-- 
Florian