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[PATCHv5,05/11] mm: Introduce lm_alias

Message ID 1481068257-6367-6-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Laura Abbott Dec. 6, 2016, 11:50 p.m. UTC 
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.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
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v5: Split off from the arm64 conversion to __pa_symbol
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 include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index a92c8d7..88556b8 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -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.