Hi Jun,

On 02/07/18 12:16, Jun Yao wrote:
> Make swapper_pg_dir smaller so we don't need to memblock_free() it.

Patch looks good, but could the commit message explain why its now safe to do 
this?

Thanks,

James


> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index d4fc68286a49..d69e11ad92e3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ SECTIONS
>       . += RESERVED_TTBR0_SIZE;
>  #endif
>       swapper_pg_dir = .;
> -     . += SWAPPER_DIR_SIZE;
> +     . += PAGE_SIZE;
>       swapper_pg_end = .;
>  
>       __pecoff_data_size = ABSOLUTE(. - __initdata_begin);
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index a7ab0010ff80..a1e8fc624324 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -632,14 +632,6 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
>       map_mem(swapper_pg_dir);
>       cpu_replace_ttbr1(swapper_pg_dir);
>       init_mm.pgd = swapper_pg_dir;
> -
> -     /*
> -      * We only reuse the PGD from the swapper_pg_dir, not the pud + pmd
> -      * allocated with it.
> -      */
> -     memblock_free(__pa_symbol(swapper_pg_dir) + PAGE_SIZE,
> -                   __pa_symbol(swapper_pg_end) - __pa_symbol(swapper_pg_dir)
> -                   - PAGE_SIZE);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> 

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