[PATCH] ARM: mm: Get rid of L_PTE_USER ref from PAGE_S2_DEVICE
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue Apr 23 03:45:51 EDT 2013
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:17:10 -0700, Christoffer Dall
<cdall at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> THe L_PTE_USER actually has nothing to do with stage 2 mappings and the
> L_PTE_S2_RDONLY value sets the readable bit, which was what L_PTE_USER
> was used for before proper handling of stage 2 memory defines.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at cs.columbia.edu>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
> b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index 80d6fc4..1d1f97f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ extern pgprot_t pgprot_s2_device;
> #define PAGE_HYP _MOD_PROT(pgprot_kernel, L_PTE_HYP)
> #define PAGE_HYP_DEVICE _MOD_PROT(pgprot_hyp_device, L_PTE_HYP)
> #define PAGE_S2 _MOD_PROT(pgprot_s2, L_PTE_S2_RDONLY)
> -#define PAGE_S2_DEVICE _MOD_PROT(pgprot_s2_device, L_PTE_USER |
> L_PTE_S2_RDONLY)
> +#define PAGE_S2_DEVICE _MOD_PROT(pgprot_s2_device, L_PTE_S2_RDONLY)
>
> #define __PAGE_NONE __pgprot(_L_PTE_DEFAULT | L_PTE_RDONLY | L_PTE_XN
|
> L_PTE_NONE)
> #define __PAGE_SHARED __pgprot(_L_PTE_DEFAULT | L_PTE_USER | L_PTE_XN)
Good catch.
While we're at it, why not directly set it to be RW instead of RO? The
only use of PAGE_S2_DEVICE immediately sets the writeable bit anyway.
M.
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