[PATCH 0/3] Add support for privileged mappings

Mitchel Humpherys mitchelh at codeaurora.org
Fri Jul 8 19:09:13 PDT 2016


On Thu, Jul 07 2016 at 02:58:21 PM, Jordan Crouse <jcrouse at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> Whilst this series is a step in the right direction for fixing that, I
>> don't think you can claim that only low-level users need this, given that
>> we have in-tree code which would break without it. Perhaps you just need
>> to extend things slightly more to expose this to the DMA API as well (or,
>> alternatively, hack the PL330 driver some how).
>
> I agree that hacking the DMA api would be the best long term solution but there
> be dragons there. Perhaps a workable compromise might be to white-list
> privileged aware devices via the device tree.

I'm sending a v2 with an attempt at plumbing this through the DMA layer.
Hopefully avoiding dragons while I'm at it :)


-Mitch

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