[PATCH v2] ARM: LPAE: don't reject mapping /dev/mem above 4GB
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Jul 2 13:15:31 EDT 2013
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 04:58:05PM +0100, Sergey Dyasly wrote:
> With LPAE enabled, physical address space is larger than 4GB. Allow mapping any
> part of it via /dev/mem by utilizing the same check as in arm64.
>
> PHYS_MASK covers 40 bits with LPAE enabled and 32 bits otherwise.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg at gmail.com>
> ---
>
> v2:
> - Removed #ifdef and changed original function as suggested by Catalin Marinas
>
> arch/arm/mm/mmap.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmap.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmap.c
> index 10062ce..09bab92 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -204,13 +204,11 @@ int valid_phys_addr_range(phys_addr_t addr, size_t size)
> }
>
> /*
> - * We don't use supersection mappings for mmap() on /dev/mem, which
> - * means that we can't map the memory area above the 4G barrier into
> - * userspace.
> + * Do not allow /dev/mem mappings beyond the supported physical range.
> */
> int valid_mmap_phys_addr_range(unsigned long pfn, size_t size)
> {
> - return !(pfn + (size >> PAGE_SHIFT) > 0x00100000);
> + return !(((pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) + size) & ~PHYS_MASK);
I don't think that's what I suggested. For classic MMU ~PHYS_MASK is 0.
--
Catalin
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