Re: [PATCH V5 1/7] mm: mmap: Allow for "high" userspace addresses

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu,  6 Dec 2018 22:50:36 +0000 Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com> wrote:

> This patch adds support for "high" userspace addresses that are
> optionally supported on the system and have to be requested via a hint
> mechanism ("high" addr parameter to mmap).
> 
> Architectures such as powerpc and x86 achieve this by making changes to
> their architectural versions of arch_get_unmapped_* functions. However,
> on arm64 we use the generic versions of these functions.
> 
> Rather than duplicate the generic arch_get_unmapped_* implementations
> for arm64, this patch instead introduces two architectural helper macros
> and applies them to arch_get_unmapped_*:
>  arch_get_mmap_end(addr) - get mmap upper limit depending on addr hint
>  arch_get_mmap_base(addr, base) - get mmap_base depending on addr hint
> 
> If these macros are not defined in architectural code then they default
> to (TASK_SIZE) and (base) so should not introduce any behavioural
> changes to architectures that do not define them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>