[RESEND PATCH V6 5/6] dmaengine: pl330: Make sure microcode is privileged
Vinod Koul
vinod.koul at intel.com
Mon Dec 5 21:01:15 PST 2016
On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 08:25:08PM +0530, Sricharan R wrote:
> From: Mitchel Humpherys <mitchelh at codeaurora.org>
>
> The PL330 performs privileged instruction fetches. This can result in
> SMMU permission faults on SMMUs that implement the ARMv8 VMSA, which
> specifies that mappings that are writeable at one execution level shall
> not be executable at any higher-privileged level. Fix this by using the
> DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED attribute, which will ensure that the microcode
> IOMMU mapping is only accessible to the privileged level.
Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com>
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~Vinod
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