Re: [PATCH] riscv: mm: init: Consolidate vars, functions

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Sat May 29 2021 - 17:20:29 EST


On Mon, 17 May 2021 07:40:01 PDT (-0700), jszhang3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sun, 16 May 2021 21:10:48 +0200
Alex Ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jisheng,

On 16/05/2021 15:19, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 2021 21:15:56 +0800 Jisheng Zhang wrote:
>
>> From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Consolidate the following items in init.c
>>
>> Staticize global vars as much as possible;
>> Add __initdata mark if the global var isn't needed after init
>> Add __init mark if the func isn't needed after init
>> Add __ro_after_init if the global var is read only after init
>
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> I think kernel_virt_addr can be removed, users can directly use
> the KERNEL_LINK_ADDR MACRO. Maybe I miss the reason of intrducing
> it in commit 2bfc6cd81bd17e43 ("riscv: Move kernel mapping outside of
> linear mapping"), could you please comment?
>
> Thanks in advance

kernel_virt_addr will be used when I push my relocatable series since
then, the kernel virtual address will be different from
KERNEL_LINK_ADDR. I agree this was not needed in 2bfc6cd81bd17e43
("riscv: Move kernel mapping outside of linear mapping"), I'm a bit late
in pushing the relocatable series.


Thanks for your information. I think kernel_virt_addr could be __ro_after_init
But I will keep it unchanged until your relocatable series.

Thanks, this is on for-next.