Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:49:10 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] selftests/mm: Implement support for arm64 on va |
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:22:38 +0530 Chaitanya S Prakash <chaitanyas.prakash@arm.com> wrote:
> The va_128TBswitch selftest is designed and implemented for PowerPC and > x86 architectures which support a 128TB switch, up to 256TB of virtual > address space and hugepage sizes of 16MB and 2MB respectively. Arm64 > platforms on the other hand support a 256Tb switch, up to 4PB of virtual > address space and a default hugepage size of 512MB when 64k pagesize is > enabled. > > These architectural differences require introducing support for arm64 > platforms, after which a more generic naming convention is suggested. > The in code comments are amended to provide a more platform independent > explanation of the working of the code and nr_hugepages are configured > as required. Finally, the file running the testcase is modified in order > to prevent skipping of hugetlb testcases of va_high_addr_switch. > > This series has been tested on 6.3.0-rc3 kernel, both on arm64 and x86 > platforms.
Would it make sense to get this series into the ARM tree, so it sees more testing on ARM?
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