[RFC PATCH 6/6] iommu/arm-smmu: Update bindings document for smmu-inst-as-data DT option

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Wed Jan 27 04:28:43 PST 2016


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:51:19AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> This patch adds info about 'smmu-inst-as-data' DT option in ARM
> SMMUv1/SMMUv2 driver bindings document.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel at broadcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ray Jui <rjui at broadcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vikram Prakash <vikramp at broadcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <sbranden at broadcom.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt
> index 7180745..4c4d03e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/arm,smmu.txt
> @@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ conditions.
>                    NOTE: this only applies to the SMMU itself, not
>                    masters connected upstream of the SMMU.
>  
> +- smmu-inst-as-data : Treat privilege/unprivilege instruction fetch as
> +                  data read for SMMUv2. The SMMU driver by default provides
> +                  unprivilege read-write permission in page table entries.
> +                  For SMMUv2, privilege instruction fetch from MMU masters
> +                  will cause a context fault for unprivilege read-write
> +                  pages. To allow both privilege and unprivilege instruction
> +                  fetch, we have to forcefully treat it as data read.

What is this needed for? Which masters do instruction fetches through
the SMMU, and when?

Surely this should only need to aplly to a subset of transactions?

Mark.

> +
>  - calxeda,smmu-secure-config-access : Enable proper handling of buggy
>                    implementations that always use secure access to
>                    SMMU configuration registers. In this case non-secure
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 



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