Re: [PATCH] arm64: add early fixmap initialization flag

From: Itaru Kitayama
Date: Mon Feb 19 2024 - 19:29:36 EST


On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 10:48:26AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 11:03:26PM +0900, skseofh@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Daero Lee <skseofh@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > early_fixmap_init may be called multiple times. Since there is no
> > change in the page table after early fixmap initialization, an
> > initialization flag was added.
>
> Why is that better?
>
> We call early_fixmap_init() in two places:
>
> * early_fdt_map()
> * setup_arch()
>
> ... and to get to setup_arch() we *must* have gone through early_fdt_map(),
> since __primary_switched() calls that before going to setup_arch().
>
> So AFAICT we can remove the second call to early_fixmap_init() in setup_arch(),
> and rely on the earlier one in early_fdt_map().

Removing the second call makes the code base a bit harder to understand
as the functions related to DT and ACPI setup are not separated cleanly.
I prefer calling the early_fixmap_init() in setup_arch() as well.

Itaru.

>
> Mark.
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daero Lee <skseofh@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/mm/fixmap.c | 7 +++++++
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fixmap.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fixmap.c
> > index c0a3301203bd..fbdd5f30f3a1 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fixmap.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fixmap.c
> > @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ static pte_t bm_pte[NR_BM_PTE_TABLES][PTRS_PER_PTE] __page_aligned_bss;
> > static pmd_t bm_pmd[PTRS_PER_PMD] __page_aligned_bss __maybe_unused;
> > static pud_t bm_pud[PTRS_PER_PUD] __page_aligned_bss __maybe_unused;
> >
> > +static int early_fixmap_initialized __initdata;
> > +
> > static inline pte_t *fixmap_pte(unsigned long addr)
> > {
> > return &bm_pte[BM_PTE_TABLE_IDX(addr)][pte_index(addr)];
> > @@ -100,10 +102,15 @@ void __init early_fixmap_init(void)
> > unsigned long addr = FIXADDR_TOT_START;
> > unsigned long end = FIXADDR_TOP;
> >
> > + if (early_fixmap_initialized)
> > + return;
> > +
> > pgd_t *pgdp = pgd_offset_k(addr);
> > p4d_t *p4dp = p4d_offset(pgdp, addr);
> >
> > early_fixmap_init_pud(p4dp, addr, end);
> > +
> > + early_fixmap_initialized = 1;
> > }
> >
> > /*
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >