From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr1-f70.google.com (mail-wr1-f70.google.com [209.85.221.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4428A6B7A2C for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2018 07:28:10 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wr1-f70.google.com with SMTP id q18so94839wrx.0 for ; Thu, 06 Dec 2018 04:28:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from EUR04-HE1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-eopbgr70089.outbound.protection.outlook.com. [40.107.7.89]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k14si162636wrx.338.2018.12.06.04.28.08 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 06 Dec 2018 04:28:09 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Capper Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 6/6] arm64: mm: Allow forcing all userspace addresses to 52-bit Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 12:28:07 +0000 Message-ID: <20181206122758.GB17572@capper-debian.cambridge.arm.com> References: <20181205164145.24568-1-steve.capper@arm.com> <20181205164145.24568-7-steve.capper@arm.com> <20181206115132.GD54495@arrakis.emea.arm.com> In-Reply-To: <20181206115132.GD54495@arrakis.emea.arm.com> Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Catalin Marinas Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Will Deacon , "jcm@redhat.com" , "ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org" , nd On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:51:33AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 04:41:45PM +0000, Steve Capper wrote: > > On arm64 52-bit VAs are provided to userspace when a hint is supplied t= o > > mmap. This helps maintain compatibility with software that expects at > > most 48-bit VAs to be returned. > >=20 > > In order to help identify software that has 48-bit VA assumptions, this > > patch allows one to compile a kernel where 52-bit VAs are returned by > > default on HW that supports it. > >=20 > > This feature is intended to be for development systems only. > >=20 > > Signed-off-by: Steve Capper >=20 > Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Thanks Catalin.