From: buildroot@browserseal.com (Sasha Sirotkin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Confusion regarding ARMv5 MMU access permissions
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:36:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBF9DCD.3040007@browserseal.com> (raw)
I'm trying to figure out how ARMv5 MMU access permissions work in
general and on Linux in particular.
Table B4-1 MMU access permissions (from the ARM Architecture Reference
Manual) does not make sense to me and trying to correlate it with
* Permission translation:
* YUWD AP SVC User
* 0xxx 0x00 no acc no acc
* 100x 0x00 r/o no acc
* 10x0 0x00 r/o no acc
* 1011 0x55 r/w no acc
* 110x 0xaa r/w r/o
* 11x0 0xaa r/w r/o
* 1111 0xff r/w r/w
from armv3_set_pte_ext makes even less sense.
Can please anybody shed some light on this black magic?
What YUWD stand for? How AP from the above table relate to AP[0:1] bits
in the ARM page table ? How should I read ARM MMU access permissions table:
S R APXa AP[1:0] Privileged permissions User permissions Description
0 0 0 0b00 No access No access All accesses generate
permission faults
x x 0 0b01 Read/write No access Privileged access only
x x 0 0b10 Read/write Read only Writes in User mode generate
permission faults
x x 0 0b11 Read/write Read/write Full access
0 0 1 0b00 - - RESERVED
0 0 1 0b01 Read only No access Privileged read only
0 0 1 0b10 Read only Read only Privileged/User read only
0 0 1 0b11 - - RESERVED
The S and R bits are deprecated in VMSAv6. The following entries apply
to legacy systems only.
0 1 0 0b00 Read only Read only Privileged/User read only
1 0 0 0b00 Read only No access Privileged read only
1 1 0 0b00 - - RESERVED
0 1 1 0bxx - - RESERVED
1 0 1 0bxx - - RESERVED
1 1 1 0bxx - - RESERVED
And what does that x (don't care !?) mean ?
Thanks a lot, hope this is the right place to ask these kinds of questions.
next reply other threads:[~2010-04-09 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-09 21:36 Sasha Sirotkin [this message]
2010-04-09 21:54 ` Confusion regarding ARMv5 MMU access permissions Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-04-12 18:58 ` Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin
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