Re: [RFC 1/3] arm: mm: reordering memory type table

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Mon Sep 10 2018 - 12:50:19 EST


On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 07:22:10PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
> index 92fd2c8a9af0..91b99fadcba1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
> @@ -164,14 +164,23 @@
> #define L_PTE_MT_BUFFERABLE (_AT(pteval_t, 0x01) << 2) /* 0001 */
> #define L_PTE_MT_WRITETHROUGH (_AT(pteval_t, 0x02) << 2) /* 0010 */
> #define L_PTE_MT_WRITEBACK (_AT(pteval_t, 0x03) << 2) /* 0011 */
> +#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_SHARED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x04) << 2) /* 0100 */
> #define L_PTE_MT_MINICACHE (_AT(pteval_t, 0x06) << 2) /* 0110 (sa1100, xscale) */
> #define L_PTE_MT_WRITEALLOC (_AT(pteval_t, 0x07) << 2) /* 0111 */
> -#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_SHARED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x04) << 2) /* 0100 */
> -#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_NONSHARED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x0c) << 2) /* 1100 */
> +#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_V7) || defined(CONFIG_CPU_V7M) || \
> + defined (CONFIG_CPU_V6) || defined(CONFIG_CPU_V6K)
> +#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_WC L_PTE_MT_BUFFERABLE
> +#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_CACHED L_PTE_MT_WRITEBACK
> +#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_NONSHARED L_PTE_MT_MINICACHE

I think you can just ignore v7M here, it doesn't have an MMU.

You are defining L_PTE_MT_DEV_NONSHARED to L_PTE_MT_MINICACHE but what I
think you just meant is index 6 in the cpu_v6_mt_table which I would use
explicitly to avoid confusion.

Anyway, on ARMv7 or ARMv6+LPAE, the non-shared device gets mapped to
shared device in hardware. Looking through the arm32 code, it seems that
MT_DEVICE_NONSHARED is used by arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7779.c
and IIUC that's a v7 platform (R-Car H1, Cortex-A9). I think the above
should be defined to L_PTE_MT_DEV_SHARED, unless I miss any place where
DEV_NONSHARED is relevant on ARMv6 (adding Simon to confirm on
shmobile).

> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
> index 81d0efb055c6..f896a30653fa 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
> @@ -134,21 +134,21 @@
> .macro armv6_mt_table pfx
> \pfx\()_mt_table:

Since you changed the MT index, you'd have to fix proc-v7-*levels.S as
well. If you define DEV_NONSHARED to SHARED, I think you only need to
update the index for L_PTE_MT_VECTORS.

--
Catalin