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The current implementation of the memory mapping API favours mapping
memory regions using the biggest possible block size in order to
reduce the number of translation tables needed.

In some cases, this behaviour might not be desirable. When translation
tables are edited at run-time, coarse-grain mappings like that might
need splitting into finer-grain tables. This operation has a
performance cost.

The MAP_REGION2() macro allows to specify the granularity of
translation tables used for the initial mapping of a memory region.
This might increase performance for memory regions that are likely to
be edited in the future, at the expense of a potentially increased
memory footprint.

The Translation Tables Library Design Guide has been updated to
explain the use case for this macro. Also added a few intermediate
titles to make the guide easier to digest.

Change-Id: I04de9302e0ee3d326b8877043a9f638766b81b7b
Co-authored-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

The documentation describes the design of the translation tables
library version 2 used by the ARM Trusted Firmware.

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Inkscape has been used to generate the *.png file from the *.dia file
to work around a bug in the generation of *.png files in some versions
of Dia.

Change-Id: Ie67d9998d4ae881b2c060200a318ad3ac2fa5e91
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>