[RFC/PATCH 0/5] Read-only memremap() proposal

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Fri May 17 2019 - 12:50:21 EST


This patch series implements a read-only version of memremap() via
a new MEMREMAP_RO flag. If this is passed in the mapping call, we'll
try to map the memory region as read-only if it doesn't intersect
with an existing mapping. Otherwise, we'll try to fallback to other
flags to try to map the memory that way.

The main use case I have is to map the command-db memory region on
Qualcomm devices with a read-only mapping. It's already a const marked
pointer and the API returns const pointers as well, so this series makes
sure that even stray writes can't modify the memory. To get there we
introduce a devm version of memremap() for a reserved memory region, add
a memremap() flag, and implement support for that flag on arm64.

Cc: Evan Green <evgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Gross <agross@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>

Stephen Boyd (5):
reserved_mem: Add a devm_memremap_reserved_mem() API
soc: qcom: cmd-db: Migrate to devm_memremap_reserved_mem()
memremap: Add support for read-only memory mappings
arm64: Add support for arch_memremap_ro()
soc: qcom: cmd-db: Map with read-only mappings

arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h | 1 +
drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/soc/qcom/cmd-db.c | 14 +++-------
include/linux/io.h | 1 +
include/linux/of_reserved_mem.h | 6 +++++
kernel/iomem.c | 15 +++++++++--
6 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)


base-commit: 9e98c678c2d6ae3a17cb2de55d17f69dddaa231b
prerequisite-patch-id: 62119e27c0c0686e02f0cb55c296b878fb7f5e47
prerequisite-patch-id: bda32cfc1733c245ae3f141d7c27b18e4adcc628
prerequisite-patch-id: b8f8097161bd15e87d54dcfbfa67b9ca1abc7204
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