From: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A question about PROT_NONE on ARM and ARM26
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:22:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040630162203.245ae9b2.spyro@f2s.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040630145942.GH29285@mail.shareable.org>
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:59:42 +0100
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:
>
> Here's an optimisation idea, for ARM26 only:
> ...........................................
>
> Do you need the "strlst" instructions in putuser.S? They're followed
> by "strge" instructions.
ARM26 is special compared to some other architectures.
the CPU has a 64MB address space, and in all known ARM26 + MMU
configurations, the bottom 32MB are the logical addresses. the upper
32MB (where kernel, physical RAM (16MB max) and IO live) are physically
addressable ONLY.
the kernel isnt mapped into the virtual address space on ARM26. it could
be, but with only 512 logical pages maximum on a normal machine (1024 on
a machine with very little RAM) it would cripple the system even more
than it already is.
the tests in ARM26 determine wether to use a translated access or a
nontranslated one depending on wether we access kernel or user space.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-30 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-30 2:44 A question about PROT_NONE on ARM and ARM26 Jamie Lokier
2004-06-30 3:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-01 3:26 ` Testing PROT_NONE and other protections, and a surprise Jamie Lokier
2004-07-01 3:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-01 4:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-01 3:44 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-07-01 4:11 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-01 4:59 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-07-01 12:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-01 14:43 ` [OT] " Kyle Moffett
2004-07-01 14:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-01 15:01 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-07-01 16:37 ` Matt Mackall
2004-07-01 17:26 ` Michael Driscoll
2004-07-02 7:37 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-07-01 12:52 ` Russell King
2004-07-01 14:26 ` Richard Curnow
2004-06-30 8:16 ` A question about PROT_NONE on ARM and ARM26 Russell King
2004-06-30 14:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-06-30 15:22 ` Ian Molton [this message]
2004-06-30 18:26 ` Russell King
2004-06-30 19:14 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-06-30 19:23 ` Russell King
2004-06-30 20:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-06-30 22:59 ` Russell King
2004-06-30 23:30 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-06-30 23:48 ` Ian Molton
2004-07-01 1:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-01 1:05 ` Nicolas Pitre
2004-07-01 1:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-02 18:39 ` Russell King
2004-07-01 15:27 ` Scott Wood
2004-07-01 23:53 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-07-02 14:36 ` Scott Wood
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