linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] KVM: arm/arm64: Introduce helpers to manupulate page table entries

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Message-ID: <87va9loir8.fsf@e105922-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:10:51 +0100
From:   Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
To:     Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
Cc:     kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, marc.zyngier@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, will.deacon@....com,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] KVM: arm/arm64: Introduce helpers to manupulate page table entries

Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com> writes:

> On 09/07/18 15:41, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> Introduce helpers to abstract architectural handling of the conversion
>> of pfn to page table entries and marking a PMD page table entry as a
>> block entry.
>>
>> The helpers are introduced in preparation for supporting PUD hugepages
>> at stage 2 - which are supported on arm64 but do not exist on arm.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
>> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>
>> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
>> Cc: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
>> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
>> ---
>
> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>

Other than the query on Patch 7 I've incorporated all your suggestions
locally.

Thanks a lot for reviewing the patches.

Punit

ps: Just noticed the typo (manupulate) in the subject. I've fixed it up
locally.