[PATCH v2] ARM: mm: Fix stage-2 device memory attributes

[Christoffer Dall]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 05:21:16PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 05:02:25PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On 27/01/14 16:57, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:16:57AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > >> On 24/01/14 23:37, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > >>> On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 08:27:23AM -0800, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > >>>> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
> > >>>> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
> > >>>> @@ -120,13 +120,19 @@
> > >>>>  /*
> > >>>>   * 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, 3) << 6)   /* HAP[2:1] */
> > >>>> -
> > >>>> -#define L_PMD_S2_RDWR		 (_AT(pmdval_t, 3) << 6)   /* HAP[2:1] */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_UNCACHED		(_AT(pteval_t, 0x0) << 2) /* strongly ordered */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_WRITETHROUGH	(_AT(pteval_t, 0xa) << 2) /* normal inner write-through */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_WRITEBACK		(_AT(pteval_t, 0xf) << 2) /* normal inner write-back */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_DEV_SHARED		(_AT(pteval_t, 0x1) << 2) /* device */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_DEV_NONSHARED	(_AT(pteval_t, 0x1) << 2) /* device */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_DEV_WC		(_AT(pteval_t, 0x5) << 2) /* normal non-cacheable */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_DEV_CACHED		(_AT(pteval_t, 0xf) << 2) /* normal inner write-back */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_MASK		(_AT(pteval_t, 0xf) << 2)
> > >>>> +
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_RDONLY			(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 6)   /* HAP[1]   */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_RDWR			(_AT(pteval_t, 3) << 6)   /* HAP[2:1] */
> > >>>> +
> > >>>> +#define L_PMD_S2_RDWR			(_AT(pmdval_t, 3) << 6)   /* HAP[2:1] */
> > >>>>  
> > >>>>  /*
> > >>>>   * Hyp-mode PL2 PTE definitions for LPAE.
> > >>
> > >> The change makes sense to me. arm64 uses a slightly different approach,
> > >> by using a PTE_S2_MEMATTR macro, but I'm not sure that would work for ARM.
> > >>
> > >> Russell, Catalin: could you please have a look at this?
> > > 
> > > Do we actually need more than Normal Cacheable and Device for stage 2?
> > 
> > Not so far. As long as these two memory types are enforced as a minimum,
> > we're quite happy to let the guest use whatever it decides.
> > 
> > I suppose Christoffer introduces them all here as a matter of
> > completeness, but I don't see them as being useful anytime soon.
> 
> That would be useful on arm if you want cachepolicy= argument to force
> the cacheability of guest Normal memory type.
> 
> On arm64, the stage 1 memory type is decided via MAIR and that's how we
> handle cachepolicy for Normal memory. But for stage 2 this won't work,
> the type is explicitly set in the MemAttr encoding. But I don't think we
> need host cachepolicy enforced onto guest.
> 
ok, sent out a V2. Thanks for the comments.
-Christoffer