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From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "Zhang, Jonathan Zhixiong" <zjzhang@codeaurora.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	fu.wei@linaro.org, al.stone@linaro.org, tony.luck@gmail.com,
	rjw@rjwysocki.net, lenb@kernel.org, ying.huang@intel.com,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 4/4] acpi, apei: use EFI memmap to map GHES memory
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:50:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150623095033.GC2815@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150622051131.GA2815@codeblueprint.co.uk>

On Mon, 22 Jun, at 06:11:31AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> 
> Right, but see my previous comment about x86 discarding a bunch of
> attributes for memory regions because the kernel "knows better".
> 
> And in most places, yes, the kernel really does know better. But this
> APEI case is special because irrespective of what the kernel says we
> want to be compatible with the firmware's memory map.
> 
> And we don't have an API for that.

Maybe what we want is a new PAGE_* protection that is compatible with
any firmware mappings? That'd be nice because we wouldn't have to
introduce a whole new API for this GHES case and ioremap_* could do
whatever it wanted under the hood.

Thougts?

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-23  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-11 18:25 [PATCH V3 0/4] map GHES memory region with EFI memory map Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
2015-06-11 18:25 ` [PATCH V3 1/4] x86: acpi: define uncached page flag Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
2015-06-12  7:52   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-12 23:49     ` Zhang, Jonathan Zhixiong
2015-06-11 18:25 ` [PATCH V3 2/4] arm64: " Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
2015-06-11 18:25 ` [PATCH V3 3/4] efi: x86: rearrange efi_mem_attributes() Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
2015-06-11 18:26 ` [PATCH V3 4/4] acpi, apei: use EFI memmap to map GHES memory Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
2015-06-12 16:29   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-12 23:44     ` Zhang, Jonathan Zhixiong
2015-06-13  8:27       ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-15 14:15         ` Matt Fleming
2015-06-15 14:59           ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-22  5:11             ` Matt Fleming
2015-06-23  9:50               ` Matt Fleming [this message]
     [not found] <E1ZG8Pn-0002uB-2C@feisty.vs19.net>
2015-07-21  0:22 ` Zhang, Jonathan Zhixiong

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