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Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: remove unnecessary boundary check

From Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: remove unnecessary boundary check
Date 2016-02-26 10:50 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:44:34AM +0800, miles.chen@mediatek.com wrote:
> From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
> 
> Remove the unnecessary boundary check since there is a huge
> gap between user and kernel address that they would never overlap.
> (arm64 does not have enough levels of page tables to cover 64-bit
> virtual address)
> 
> See Documentation/arm64/memory.txt
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Will

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[PATCH] arm64/mm: remove unnecessary boundary check <miles.chen@mediatek.com> - 2016-02-25 04:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: remove unnecessary boundary check Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-02-26 10:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: remove unnecessary boundary check Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-02-26 14:50 +0100

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