Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] arm: mm: reordering memory type table | From | Miles Chen <> | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:03:44 +0800 |
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On Fri, 2020-10-23 at 11:16 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 05:14:35PM +0800, Miles Chen wrote: > > From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> > > > > To use bit 5 in page table as L_PTE_SPECIAL, we need a room for that. > > It seems we don't need 4 bits for the memory type with ARMv6+. > > If it's true, let's reorder bits to make bit 5 free. > > > > We will use the bit for L_PTE_SPECIAL in next patch. > > > > A note from Catalin in [1]: > > " > > > Anyway, on ARMv7 or ARMv6+LPAE, the non-shared device gets mapped to > > > shared device in hardware. Looking through the arm32 code, it seems that > > > MT_DEVICE_NONSHARED is used by arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7779.c > > > and IIUC that's a v7 platform (R-Car H1, Cortex-A9). I think the above > > > should be defined to L_PTE_MT_DEV_SHARED, unless I miss any place where > > > DEV_NONSHARED is relevant on ARMv6 (adding Simon to confirm on shmbile). > > " > > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/986574/ > > > > Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> > > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> > > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> > > Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> > > Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> > > Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> > > Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> > > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com> > > --- > > arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++---- > > arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S | 4 ++-- > > 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h > > index 27a8635abea0..cdcd55cca37d 100644 > > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h > > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h > > @@ -161,14 +161,27 @@ > > #define L_PTE_MT_BUFFERABLE (_AT(pteval_t, 0x01) << 2) /* 0001 */ > > #define L_PTE_MT_WRITETHROUGH (_AT(pteval_t, 0x02) << 2) /* 0010 */ > > #define L_PTE_MT_WRITEBACK (_AT(pteval_t, 0x03) << 2) /* 0011 */ > > +#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_SHARED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x04) << 2) /* 0100 */ > > +#define L_PTE_MT_VECTORS (_AT(pteval_t, 0x05) << 2) /* 0101 */ > > #define L_PTE_MT_MINICACHE (_AT(pteval_t, 0x06) << 2) /* 0110 (sa1100, xscale) */ > > #define L_PTE_MT_WRITEALLOC (_AT(pteval_t, 0x07) << 2) /* 0111 */ > > -#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_SHARED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x04) << 2) /* 0100 */ > > -#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_NONSHARED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x0c) << 2) /* 1100 */ > > Sorry, no, this isn't going to work. > > The lower two bits of this (bits 2 and 3) are explicitly designed to fit > the C and B bits used in older architectures. Changing L_PTE_MT_VECTORS > from having value '11' to '01' changes the functionality on older CPUs. >
thanks for the comment.
Is is possible to find other order to fit this? e.g.,
+#define L_PTE_MT_VECTORS (_AT(pteval_t, 0x07) << 2) /* 0111 */
#define L_PTE_MT_WRITEALLOC (_AT(pteval_t, 0x05) << 2) /* 0101 */
or only allow this types for the new CPUs?
Miles
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