[PATCH v2 0/8] ARM: NOMMU: MPU updates

Alexandre Torgue alexandre.torgue at st.com
Fri Sep 1 06:45:15 PDT 2017


Hi Vlad

On 07/21/2017 03:12 PM, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is an update of the existent MPU code which consist set of
> clean-ups and enhancements. The most significant changes are in the
> way how MPU settings sync-up for secondaries (PATCH 3/8), more
> flexible layout for memory (PATCH 7/8) and support for XIP (PATCH
> 8/8). Since there is no in-tree user of MPU, support for M-class has
> been added (PATCH 6/8).
> 
> There is also practical benefit of patch set:
> 
> "These MPU patches introduce a nice feature that it simplifies the
> bootloader: do not need to setup the MPU, for example for coherent DMA
> region, which is described in device-tree too." András Szemző
> 
> Changelog:
>             v1 -> v2
>                - support for XIP (PATCH 7/8)
> 	      - rebased on 4.13-rc1
> 
>          RFC v2 -> v1
>                 - dropped RFC tag
> 	       - Tested-by from András
> 	       - rebased on 4.12-rc5
> 
>             RFC -> RFC v2
> 	       - fixed MPU enable for v7m (PATCH 6/7)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Vladimir Murzin (8):
>    ARM: NOMMU: Move out MPU setup in separate module
>    ARM: NOMMU: Update MPU accessors to use cp15 helpers
>    ARM: NOMMU: Rework MPU to be mostly done in C
>    ARM: NOMMU: Disallow MPU for XIP
>    ARM: Kconfig: Kill CONFIG_VECTORS_BASE
>    ARM: V7M: Add support for MPU to M-class
>    ARM: NOMMU: Use more MPU regions to cover memory
>    ARM: NOMMU: Support MPU in XIP configuration
> 

For no-XIP patches:

Tested-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue at st.com>

I still have issue with XIP ones, then I continue to analysis ans let 
you know asap.

Regards
Alex



>   arch/arm/Kconfig                  |   9 -
>   arch/arm/Kconfig-nommu            |  17 +-
>   arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h    |  10 +
>   arch/arm/include/asm/mpu.h        |  24 +-
>   arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h        |   2 +-
>   arch/arm/include/asm/v7m.h        |  10 +
>   arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c     |  11 +
>   arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.S      | 138 ++++++++---
>   arch/arm/kernel/smp.c             |   2 +-
>   arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S |   3 +
>   arch/arm/mm/Makefile              |   1 +
>   arch/arm/mm/nommu.c               | 254 +-------------------
>   arch/arm/mm/pmsa-v7.c             | 471 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   13 files changed, 651 insertions(+), 301 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 arch/arm/mm/pmsa-v7.c
> 



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