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Russell King authored
Catalin Marinas at ARM Ltd says: > The CPU architects in ARM intended supersections only as a way to map > addresses >= 4GB. Supersections are not mandated by the architecture > and there is no easy way to detect their hardware support at run-time > (other than checking for a specific core). From the analysis done in > ARM, there wasn't a clear performance gain by using supersections > rather than sections (no significant improvement in the TLB misses). Therefore, we should avoid using supersections unless there's a real need (iow, we're mapping addresses >= 4GB). This means that we can simplify create_mapping() a bit since we will only use supersection mappings for addresses >= 4GB, which means that the physical, virtual and length must be multiples of the supersection mapping size. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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