From: Laura Abbott <[email protected]>
commit 568c5fe5a54 upstream.
Certain architectures may have the kernel image mapped separately to
alias the linear map. Introduce a macro lm_alias to translate a kernel
image symbol into its linear alias. This is used in part with work to
add CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL support for arm64.
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 2217e2f..edd2480 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ extern int mmap_rnd_compat_bits __read_mostly;
#define page_to_virt(x) __va(PFN_PHYS(page_to_pfn(x)))
#endif
+#ifndef lm_alias
+#define lm_alias(x) __va(__pa_symbol(x))
+#endif
+
/*
* To prevent common memory management code establishing
* a zero page mapping on a read fault.
--
2.7.4