[PATCH] ARM: psci: boot_secondary: replace __pa with virt_to_idmap

[linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 05:18:37PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:44:22AM +0100, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> > On some PAE systems (e.g. TI Keystone), memory is above the 32-bit
> > addressable limit, and the interconnect provides an aliased view of
> > parts of physical memory in the 32-bit addressable space. This alias
> > is strictly for boot time usage, and is not otherwise usable because
> > of coherency limitations.
> > 
> > On such systems, the idmap mechanism has to be used to pass correct
> > boot address of secondary CPU to FW.
> > virt_to_idmap() will fall-back to existing virt_to_phys() macro if
> > such conversation is not required.
> > 
> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> > Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
> > Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@ti.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/kernel/psci_smp.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> The code itself looks sane to me, though the commit message would be
> better with Russell's suggested rewording.
> 
> This will also conflict with my migration to a common PSCI client
> implementation [1,2] (especially given the absence of virt_to_idmap on
> arm64), but I'm happy to fold it in or rebase atop of it.
> 
> Russell, are you able to take a look at the migration patch [2]? How
> would you prefer for the two patches to be taken?

Well, the first thing that stands out about patch [2] is that it's
introducing a load of magic hex numbers, where before we had a struct
with nice definitions.  (I'm thinking about highbank_suspend_finish()
and calxeda_idle_finish().)  This seems to be a backwards step.

There's two options on how to handle this.  Either accept the
virt_to_idmap() change first, and then sort out the resulting difference,
maybe by having ARM64 grow a virt_to_idmap() of its own (which is just
a virt_to_phys()) or we do it the other way around.  Either way, we
need a new macro, and the established name for it is virt_to_idmap().
The order doesn't matter as the end result would be the same.

> Thanks,
> Mark.
> 
> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-May/346492.html
> [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-May/346503.html

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