The physical section number is no longer ORed into the IOTLB entries
together with a page-aligned pointer, so it no longer needs to be
page-aligned.

Signed-off-by: Jim Shu <jim.shu@sifive.com>
---
 system/physmem.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/system/physmem.c b/system/physmem.c
index d17596a77fb..2fb0c25c93b 100644
--- a/system/physmem.c
+++ b/system/physmem.c
@@ -1323,12 +1323,6 @@ static subpage_t *subpage_init(FlatView *fv, hwaddr base);
 static uint16_t phys_section_add(PhysPageMap *map,
                                  MemoryRegionSection *section)
 {
-    /* The physical section number is ORed with a page-aligned
-     * pointer to produce the iotlb entries.  Thus it should
-     * never overflow into the page-aligned value.
-     */
-    assert(map->sections_nb < TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
-
     if (map->sections_nb == map->sections_nb_alloc) {
         map->sections_nb_alloc = MAX(map->sections_nb_alloc * 2, 16);
         map->sections = g_renew(MemoryRegionSection, map->sections,
-- 
2.43.0

On 1/28/26 7:23 AM, Jim Shu wrote:
> The physical section number is no longer ORed into the IOTLB entries
> together with a page-aligned pointer, so it no longer needs to be
> page-aligned.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jim Shu <jim.shu@sifive.com>
> ---
>   system/physmem.c | 6 ------
>   1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> 

We don't need to OR it anymore since we directly have a pointer on 
memory section now.

Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>