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The current split_blk_unmap implementation suffers from some inscrutable pointer trickery for creating the tables to replace the block entry, but more than that it also suffers from hideous inefficiency. For example, the most pathological case of unmapping a level 3 page from a level 1 block will allocate 513 lower-level tables to remap the entire block at page granularity, when only 2 are actually needed (the rest can be covered by level 2 block entries). Also, we would like to be able to relax the spinlock requirement in future, for which the roll-back-and-try-again logic for race resolution would be pretty hideous under the current paradigm. Both issues can be resolved most neatly by turning things sideways: instead of repeatedly recursing into __arm_lpae_map() map to build up an entire new sub-table depth-first, we can directly replace the block entry with a next-level table of block/page entries, then repeat by unmapping at the next level if necessary. With a little refactoring of some helper functions, the code ends up not much bigger than before, but considerably easier to follow and to adapt in future. Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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