[PATCH] alpha: Select ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
Matt Turner <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-alpha,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Alpha has a clean split between user and kernel address spaces: user space occupies 0x0000000000000000-0x000003ffffffffff (TASK_SIZE), while kernel space uses KSEG and vmalloc regions near the top of the 64-bit address space. These are strictly non-overlapping. This enables optimizations in BPF and tracing that can skip address range checks when user and kernel pointers are distinguishable by address alone. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <[email protected]> --- arch/alpha/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git ./arch/alpha/Kconfig ./arch/alpha/Kconfig index d870529fa251..394e49328cb6 100644 --- ./arch/alpha/Kconfig +++ ./arch/alpha/Kconfig @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ config ALPHA select ARCH_32BIT_USTAT_F_TINODE select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER select ARCH_HAS_DMA_OPS if PCI + select ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO select ARCH_MODULE_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU if SMP -- 2.52.0