[PATCH V2 0/3] PTE fixes for arm and arm64

Steve Capper steve.capper at linaro.org
Wed Mar 26 06:23:19 EDT 2014


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:38:51AM +0000, Steve Capper wrote:
> This series fixes a couple of problems that I have come across:
>  1) Some pte accessors for arm and arm64 can have their results
>     cancelled out by a downcast. This is addressed by the first two
>     patches.
> 
>  2) On arm with LPAE it is impossible to distinguish between clean
>     writable ptes and read only ptes. This is addressed by the third
>     patch.
> 
> As the third patch depends on the first patch, all three patches are
> bundled together in the same series.
> 
> I have reviewed Will and Russell's patch:
>  b6ccb9803e90 ("ARM: 7954/1: mm: remove remaining domain support
> 	from ARMv6")
> And I believe that the L_PTE_WRITE logic should be compatible with this
> patch. It applies cleanly and compiles; but I would be greatful if
> someone could please give it a test.

If there are no objections, I was going to put the following into
Russell's patch system:
	arm: mm: Double logical invert for pte accessors
	arm: mm: Switch back to L_PTE_WRITE

Cheers,
-- 
Steve



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