Commit 1492b65a authored Jan 10, 2017 by Laura Abbott Committed by Olav Haugan Aug 07, 2017

mm: Introduce lm_alias



Certain architectures may have the kernel image mapped separately to
alias the linear map. Introduce a macro lm_alias to translate a kernel
image symbol into its linear alias. This is used in part with work to
add CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL support for arm64.

Change-Id: I39059f57f725d4e352343170b8d84d2e668d3f62
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Git-commit: 568c5fe5a54f2654f5a4c599c45b8a62ed9a2013
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git


Signed-off-by: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@codeaurora.org>

parent 05e7d36b

include/linux/mm.h

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		@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ extern int mmap_rnd_compat_bits __read_mostly;
		#define page_to_virt(x) __va(PFN_PHYS(page_to_pfn(x)))
		#endif

		#ifndef lm_alias
		#define lm_alias(x) __va(__pa_symbol(x))
		#endif

		/*
		* To prevent common memory management code establishing
		* a zero page mapping on a read fault.