Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] ACPI: Add memory semantics to acpi_os_map_memory()

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 04:23:59PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> The memory attributes attached to memory regions depend on architecture
> specific mappings.
> 
> For some memory regions, the attributes specified by firmware (eg
> uncached) are not sufficient to determine how a memory region should be
> mapped by an OS (for instance a region that is define as uncached in
> firmware can be mapped as Normal or Device memory on arm64) and
> therefore the OS must be given control on how to map the region to match
> the expected mapping behaviour (eg if a mapping is requested with memory
> semantics, it must allow unaligned accesses).
> 
> Rework acpi_os_map_memory() and acpi_os_ioremap() back-end to split
> them into two separate code paths:
> 
> acpi_os_memmap() -> memory semantics
> acpi_os_ioremap() -> MMIO semantics
> 
> The split allows the architectural implementation back-ends to detect
> the default memory attributes required by the mapping in question
> (ie the mapping API defines the semantics memory vs MMIO) and map the
> memory accordingly.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/31ffe8fc-f5ee-2858-26c5-0fd8bdd68702@xxxxxxx
> Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

For the arm64 bits:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>

I presume this will get merged via the ACPI tree?

-- 
Catalin