Re: [PATCH v8 09/16] ARM: LPAE: MMU setup for the 3-level pagetable format

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Fri Nov 11 2011 - 06:01:07 EST


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:24:58PM +0000, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>
> [...]
> > + /*
> > + * Macro for setting up the TTBRx and TTBCR registers.
> > + * - \ttbr1 updated.
> > + */
> > + .macro v7_ttb_setup, zero, ttbr0, ttbr1, tmp
> > + mrc p15, 0, \tmp, c2, c0, 2 @ TTB control register
> > + orr \tmp, \tmp, #TTB_EAE
> > + ALT_SMP(orr \tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_SMP)
> > + ALT_SMP(orr \tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_SMP << 16)
> > + ALT_UP(orr \tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_UP)
> > + ALT_UP(orr \tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_UP << 16)
>
> The ALT_SMP() and ALT_UP() must always be paired and in the right order.
> The above certainly won't produce what you expect on UP.

Good catch.

> > +#if PHYS_OFFSET <= PAGE_OFFSET
>
> Please don't use PHYS_OFFSET like a preprocessor macro anymore. This is
> becoming a global variable these days, and already is for the majority
> of platforms.

That's left from last year when it was still a macro. I will revisit
this code.

> > + * TTBR0/TTBR1 split (PAGE_OFFSET):
> > + * 0x40000000: T0SZ = 2, T1SZ = 0 (not used)
> > + * 0x80000000: T0SZ = 0, T1SZ = 1
> > + * 0xc0000000: T0SZ = 0, T1SZ = 2
> > + *
> > + * Only use this feature if PHYS_OFFSET <= PAGE_OFFSET, otherwise
> > + * booting secondary CPUs would end up using TTBR1 for the identity
> > + * mapping set up in TTBR0.
> > + */
> > + orr \tmp, \tmp, #(((PAGE_OFFSET >> 30) - 1) << 16) @ TTBCR.T1SZ
> > +#if defined CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G
> > + /* PAGE_OFFSET == 0x80000000, T1SZ == 1 */
> > + add \ttbr1, \ttbr1, #1 << 4 @ skip two L1 entries
> > +#elif defined CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G
> > + /* PAGE_OFFSET == 0xc0000000, T1SZ == 2 */
> > + add \ttbr1, \ttbr1, #4096 * (1 + 3) @ only L2 used, skip pgd+3*pmd
> > +#endif
> > +#endif /* PHYS_OFFSET <= PAGE_OFFSET */
>
> What about CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G ?

That's the default, we don't use split TTBR for that (I'll add a
comment).

--
Catalin
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