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Date:   Fri, 9 Apr 2021 17:10:26 +0300
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
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On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 02:07:24PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 09.04.21 13:39, Alex Ghiti wrote:
> > Hi David,
> 
> I assume you still somehow create the direct mapping for the kernel, right?
> So it's really some memory region with a direct mapping but without a memmap
> (and right now, without a resource), correct?

XIP kernel text is not a region in memory to begin with ;-)

It resides in a flash and it is executed directly from there without being
relocated to RAM.

That's why it does not need neither direct mapping, nor struct pages.
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.