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    [PATCH] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation · 0dbf7028
    Vivek Goyal authored
    
    
    Currently __pa_symbol is for use with symbols in the kernel address
    map and __pa is for use with pointers into the physical memory map.
    But the code is implemented so you can usually interchange the two.
    
    __pa which is much more common can be implemented much more cheaply
    if it is it doesn't have to worry about any other kernel address
    spaces.  This is especially true with a relocatable kernel as
    __pa_symbol needs to peform an extra variable read to resolve
    the address.
    
    There is a third macro that is added for the vsyscall data
    __pa_vsymbol for finding the physical addesses of vsyscall pages.
    
    Most of this patch is simply sorting through the references to
    __pa or __pa_symbol and using the proper one.  A little of
    it is continuing to use a physical address when we have it
    instead of recalculating it several times.
    
    swapper_pgd is now NULL.  leave_mm now uses init_mm.pgd
    and init_mm.pgd is initialized at boot (instead of compile time)
    to the physmem virtual mapping of init_level4_pgd.  The
    physical address changed.
    
    Except for the for EMPTY_ZERO page all of the remaining references
    to __pa_symbol appear to be during kernel initialization.  So this
    should reduce the cost of __pa in the common case, even on a relocated
    kernel.
    
    As this is technically a semantic change we need to be on the lookout
    for anything I missed.  But it works for me (tm).
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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