Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] arm: mm: reordering memory type table

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Thu Sep 20 2018 - 21:43:42 EST


Hi Guys,

Could you have a chance to review this patchset?

Thanks!

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 09:44:49AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> 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
> "
> > 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).
> "
>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h | 19 +++++++++++++++----
> arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
> index 92fd2c8a9af0..514b13c27b43 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
> @@ -164,14 +164,25 @@
> #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 */
> +#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_V7) || defined (CONFIG_CPU_V6) || defined(CONFIG_CPU_V6K)
> +/*
> + * On ARMv7 or ARMv6+LPAE, the non-shared device gets mapped to
> + * shared device in hardware.
> + */
> +#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_NONSHARED L_PTE_MT_DEV_SHARED
> +#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_WC L_PTE_MT_BUFFERABLE
> +#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_CACHED L_PTE_MT_WRITEBACK
> +#define L_PTE_MT_MASK (_AT(pteval_t, 0x07) << 2)
> +#else
> #define L_PTE_MT_DEV_WC (_AT(pteval_t, 0x09) << 2) /* 1001 */
> #define L_PTE_MT_DEV_CACHED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x0b) << 2) /* 1011 */
> -#define L_PTE_MT_VECTORS (_AT(pteval_t, 0x0f) << 2) /* 1111 */
> -#define L_PTE_MT_MASK (_AT(pteval_t, 0x0f) << 2)
> +#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_NONSHARED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x0c) << 2) /* 1100 */
> +#define L_PTE_MT_MASK (_AT(pteval_t, 0x0f) << 2)
> +#endif
>
> #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
> index 81d0efb055c6..367a89d5aeca 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
> @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
> .long PTE_CACHEABLE @ L_PTE_MT_WRITETHROUGH
> .long PTE_CACHEABLE | PTE_BUFFERABLE @ L_PTE_MT_WRITEBACK
> .long PTE_BUFFERABLE @ L_PTE_MT_DEV_SHARED
> - .long 0x00 @ unused
> + .long PTE_CACHEABLE | PTE_BUFFERABLE | PTE_EXT_APX @ L_PTE_MT_VECTORS
> .long 0x00 @ L_PTE_MT_MINICACHE (not present)
> .long PTE_EXT_TEX(1) | PTE_CACHEABLE | PTE_BUFFERABLE @ L_PTE_MT_WRITEALLOC
> .long 0x00 @ unused
> @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
> .long PTE_EXT_TEX(2) @ L_PTE_MT_DEV_NONSHARED
> .long 0x00 @ unused
> .long 0x00 @ unused
> - .long PTE_CACHEABLE | PTE_BUFFERABLE | PTE_EXT_APX @ L_PTE_MT_VECTORS
> + .long 0x00 @ unused
> .endm
>
> .macro armv6_set_pte_ext pfx
> --
> 2.19.0.397.gdd90340f6a-goog
>