From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: Clean up the default pgprot setting
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 18:07:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140502170745.GF20642@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399045919-5615-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com>
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 04:51:59PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> The primary aim of this patchset is to remove the pgprot_default and
> prot_sect_default global variables and rely strictly on predefined
> values. The original goal was to be able to run SMP kernels on UP
> hardware by not setting the Shareability bit. However, it is unlikely to
> see UP ARMv8 hardware and even if we do, the Shareability bit is no
> longer assumed to disable cacheable accesses.
>
> A side effect is that the device mappings now have the Shareability
> attribute set. The hardware, however, should ignore it since Device
> accesses are always Outer Shareable.
>
> Following the removal of the two global variables, there is some PROT_*
> macro reshuffling and cleanup, including the __PAGE_* macros (replaced
> by PAGE_*).
[...]
> +#define PAGE_NONE __pgprot(((_PAGE_DEFAULT) & ~PTE_TYPE_MASK) | PTE_PROT_NONE | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)
> +#define PAGE_SHARED __pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN | PTE_WRITE)
> +#define PAGE_SHARED_EXEC __pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_WRITE)
> +#define PAGE_COPY __pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)
> +#define PAGE_COPY_EXEC __pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN)
> +#define PAGE_READONLY __pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)
> +#define PAGE_READONLY_EXEC __pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_USER | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN)
> +#define PAGE_EXECONLY __pgprot(_PAGE_DEFAULT | PTE_NG | PTE_PXN)
Could you build the non-exec versions in terms of the exec versions? The
difference is just the addition of PTE_UXN, and it would make this easier to
read.
Otherwise this looks fine,
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-02 17:07 UTC|newest]
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2014-05-02 15:51 [PATCH] arm64: Clean up the default pgprot setting Catalin Marinas
2014-05-02 17:07 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2014-05-06 14:08 ` Catalin Marinas
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