Re: [PATCH 7/8] arm64: apei: implement arch_apei_get_mem_attributes()

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Fri Aug 07 2015 - 05:50:30 EST


On Fri, 07 Aug, at 09:37:00AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> From: "Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang" <zjzhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Table 8 of UEFI 2.5 section 2.3.6.1 defines mappings from EFI
> memory types to MAIR attribute encodings for arm64.
>
> If the physical address has memory attributes defined by EFI
> memmap as EFI_MEMORY_[UC|WC|WT], return approprate page protection
> type according to the UEFI spec. Otherwise, return PAGE_KERNEL.
>
> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang <zjzhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
>

Ard Biesheuvel has brought up a concern with this patch and it's
currently under discussion here,

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAKv+Gu8+g3dTaNzXjSD=5GxproaHM+Eu1hLmRWp7cVrQimzbHQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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