Hi Ayan, On 25/10/2023 19:03, Ayan Kumar Halder wrote: > Before the MMU is turned on, the address returned for any symbol will always > be > physical address. Thus, one can use adr_l instead of load_paddr. > > create_table_entry() now takes an extra argument to denote if it is called > after > the mmu is turned on or not. If it is called with mmu on, then it uses > load_paddr to get the physical address of the page table symbol. I wonder if we need this extra complexity. Can we just remove load_paddr macro completely (I have a plan to do this for arm64 mmu head.S) and open code it in create_table_entry? I don't think there is any benefit in having the if/else there to use either load_paddr or adr_l. This function will also go into arm32 mmu head.S.
~Michal
