Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757590Ab2HQKZu (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:25:50 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aog110.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.203]:42696 "EHLO na3sys009aog110.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751299Ab2HQKZr (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:25:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120817101500.GG24389@arm.com> References: <1344966752-16102-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <1344966752-16102-6-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <502E1793.9080605@ti.com> <20120817101500.GG24389@arm.com> From: "Shilimkar, Santosh" Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:55:25 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/31] arm64: MMU initialisation To: Catalin Marinas Cc: "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Will Deacon , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Arnd Bergmann Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2934 Lines: 74 On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:06:11AM +0100, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: >> On Tuesday 14 August 2012 11:22 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote: >> > This patch contains the initialisation of the memory blocks, MMU >> > attributes and the memory map. Only five memory types are defined: >> > Device nGnRnE (equivalent to Strongly Ordered), Device nGnRE (classic >> > Device memory), Device GRE, Normal Non-cacheable and Normal Cacheable. >> > Cache policies are supported via the memory attributes register >> > (MAIR_EL1) and only affect the Normal Cacheable mappings. >> > >> > This patch also adds the SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP initialisation. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon >> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas >> > --- >> >> Whats the difference between Device nGnRE and Device GRE ? >> Sorry, I haven't gone through the specs yet and hence the >> question. > > G - gathering (multiple reads/writes into one) > R - reordering (reads/writes) > E - early acknowledgement (the write may have not hit the device before > the instruction returns). > > The 'n' in front just negates the meaning. > > So the Device memory as we know it on ARMv7 is equivalent to nGnRE. The > Strongly Ordered is nGnRnE. GRE is pretty much like Normal Non-cacheable > memory but with Device mapping, so there are restrictions on unaligned > accesses. > Thanks for explaining it so clearly. >> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32 >> > + /* 4GB maximum for 32-bit only capable devices */ >> > + max_dma32 = min(max, MAX_DMA32_PFN); >> > + zone_size[ZONE_DMA32] = max_dma32 - min; >> > +#endif >> >> Do you see need of supporting DMA32 on arm64 SOCs ? > > I've got some questions from partners but those devices may just be > hidden behind an iommu. For now I left it in. > ok. >> > +static struct cachepolicy cache_policies[] __initdata = { >> > + { >> > + .policy = "uncached", >> > + .mair = 0x44, /* inner, outer non-cacheable */ >> > + .tcr = TCR_IRGN_NC | TCR_ORGN_NC, >> > + }, { >> > + .policy = "writethrough", >> > + .mair = 0xaa, /* inner, outer write-through, read-allocate */ >> > + .tcr = TCR_IRGN_WT | TCR_ORGN_WT, >> >> Is WT supported on arm64? >> On the recent ARMv7 processors, I think WT wasn't supported. > > All of WB, WA, WT are just architectural hints. A CPU implementation may > or may not ignore them but with Linux we try to follow the architecture > rather than specific implementations. > Agree. Regards Santosh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/