mm: Introduce lm_alias
authorLaura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:35:42 +0000 (13:35 -0800)
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:56:49 +0000 (13:56 +0000)
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.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
include/linux/mm.h

index fe6b4036664a9a7c82fe4a22be93288928eceac1..5dc9c4650522173d441379a6d3f7a948834aab9e 100644 (file)
@@ -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.