[PATCH 11/14] ARM: v6k: use CPU domain feature if we include support for arch < ARMv6K

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Jan 27 13:59:35 EST 2011


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:14:56PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 17 January 2011 19:24, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > Rather than turning off CPU domain switching when the build architecture
> > includes ARMv6K, thereby causing problems for ARMv6-supporting kernels,
> > turn it on when it's required to support a CPU architecture.
> 
> (sorry, I'm well behind list messages, didn't reply earlier)
> 
> Does it mean that we get domains enabled even for ARMv7 when ARMv6 is
> built in the same kernel? The side effect is that user read-only
> addresses are writable by the kernel and SWP emulation no longer
> works.

It means that a kernel with ARMv6 through to ARMv7 will have CPU
domains enabled.  So maybe we want:

config CPU_32v6
	select CPU_USE_DOMAINS if !CPU_V6K && MMU

instead?



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