[PATCH v6 01/15] ARM: Add page table and page defines needed by KVM

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Jan 24 12:02:20 EST 2013


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:05:33PM +0000, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 05:57:26PM +0000, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
> >> index a3f3792..6ef8afd 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
> >> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
> >> @@ -104,11 +104,29 @@
> >>   */
> >>  #define L_PGD_SWAPPER                (_AT(pgdval_t, 1) << 55)        /* swapper_pg_dir entry */
> >>
> >> +/*
> >> + * 2nd stage PTE definitions for LPAE.
> >> + */
> >> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_UNCACHED  (_AT(pteval_t, 0x5) << 2) /* MemAttr[3:0] */
> >> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_WRITETHROUGH (_AT(pteval_t, 0xa) << 2) /* MemAttr[3:0] */
> >> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_WRITEBACK         (_AT(pteval_t, 0xf) << 2) /* MemAttr[3:0] */
> >> +#define L_PTE_S2_RDONLY               (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 6)   /* HAP[1]   */
> >> +#define L_PTE_S2_RDWR                 (_AT(pteval_t, 2) << 6)   /* HAP[2:1] */
> >
> > Why is this called L_PTE_S2_RDWR? The ARM ARM shows HAP[2:1] as 0b11 for
> > read/write and 0b10 for WRONLY.
> 
> it should be
> 
> +#define L_PTE_S2_RDWR                 (_AT(pteval_t, 3) << 6)   /* HAP[2:1] */

OK.

> 
> >> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
> >> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h
> >> @@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ extern void __pgd_error(const char *file, int line, pgd_t);
> >>
> >>  extern pgprot_t              pgprot_user;
> >>  extern pgprot_t              pgprot_kernel;
> >> +extern pgprot_t              pgprot_hyp_device;
> >> +extern pgprot_t              pgprot_s2;
> >> +extern pgprot_t              pgprot_s2_device;
> >>
> >>  #define _MOD_PROT(p, b)      __pgprot(pgprot_val(p) | (b))
> >>
> >> @@ -82,6 +85,10 @@ extern pgprot_t            pgprot_kernel;
> >>  #define PAGE_READONLY_EXEC   _MOD_PROT(pgprot_user, L_PTE_USER | L_PTE_RDONLY)
> >>  #define PAGE_KERNEL          _MOD_PROT(pgprot_kernel, L_PTE_XN)
> >>  #define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC     pgprot_kernel
> >> +#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)
> >
> > Are these S2 read-only by default?
> 
> not sure I understand what you're asking here?

Why do you pass L_PTE_S2_RDONLY? Do you need to restrict guest writes
via the stage 2 attributes?

-- 
Catalin



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