Hi Ard,

2017-10-10 16:53 GMT+02:00 Leif Lindholm <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 07:00:57PM +0200, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
>> From: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
>>
>> The GIC architecture mandates that the CPU interface, which consists
>> of 2 consecutive 4 KB frames, can be mapped using separate mappings.
>> Since this is problematic on 64 KB pages, the MMU-400 aliases each
>> frame 16 times, and the two consecutive frames can be found at offset
>> 0xf000. This patch is intended to expose correct GICC alias via
>> MADT, once ACPI support is added.
>
> I'm afraid I don't quite understand this message.
>
> The change seems to be that the InterfaceBase moves from the first 4KB
> alias inside a 64KB page to the last alias within the same page.
> That seems valid, but I don't see how it resolves anything described
> in this message?
>

Can you recall what issue was fixed thanks to this patch?

Best regards,
Marcin
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