Re: [PATCH RFC 5/6] arm64/xen: implement xen_remap on arm64

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Fri May 31 2013 - 10:16:57 EST


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 02:21:16PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2013, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 05:18:32PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/xen/page.h
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/xen/page.h
> > > @@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ static inline bool set_phys_to_machine(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long mfn)
> > > return __set_phys_to_machine(pfn, mfn);
> > > }
> > >
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64
> > > +#define xen_remap(cookie, size) __ioremap((cookie), (size), __pgprot(PROT_NORMAL))
> > > +#else
> > > #define xen_remap(cookie, size) __arm_ioremap((cookie), (size), MT_MEMORY);
> > > +#endif
> >
> > Now I saw the ARM-specific part. Can you not use something like
> > ioremap_cached() which would give normal cacheable memory (at least on
> > ARMv7).
>
> No, I cannot because ioremap_cached uses MT_DEVICE_CACHED, while this
> needs to be MT_MEMORY. It is used for normal memory pages, not device
> memory.

MT_DEVICE_CACHED is Normal memory for ARMv7.

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Catalin
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