From 909a4069da65a5cfca8c968edf9f0d99f694d2f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Rutland Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:51:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: head.S: remove unnecessary function alignment Currently __turn_mmu_on is aligned to 64 bytes to ensure that it doesn't span any page boundary, which simplifies the idmap and spares us requiring an additional page table to map half of the function. In keeping with other important requirements in architecture code, this fact is undocumented. Additionally, as the function consists of three instructions totalling 12 bytes with no literal pool data, a smaller alignment of 16 bytes would be sufficient. This patch reduces the alignment to 16 bytes and documents the underlying reason for the alignment. This reduces the required alignment of the entire .head.text section from 64 bytes to 16 bytes, though it may still be aligned to a larger value depending on TEXT_OFFSET. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Tested-by: Laura Abbott Acked-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas --- arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S index a2c1195abb7f..6dfb21e6e105 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S @@ -455,8 +455,13 @@ ENDPROC(__enable_mmu) * x27 = *virtual* address to jump to upon completion * * other registers depend on the function called upon completion + * + * We align the entire function to the smallest power of two larger than it to + * ensure it fits within a single block map entry. Otherwise were PHYS_OFFSET + * close to the end of a 512MB or 1GB block we might require an additional + * table to map the entire function. */ - .align 6 + .align 4 __turn_mmu_on: msr sctlr_el1, x0 isb