[PATCH v2 3/3] ACPI: Add memory semantics to acpi_os_map_memory()
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Aug 2 09:46:22 PDT 2021
On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 04:23:59PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> The memory attributes attached to memory regions depend on architecture
> specific mappings.
>
> For some memory regions, the attributes specified by firmware (eg
> uncached) are not sufficient to determine how a memory region should be
> mapped by an OS (for instance a region that is define as uncached in
> firmware can be mapped as Normal or Device memory on arm64) and
> therefore the OS must be given control on how to map the region to match
> the expected mapping behaviour (eg if a mapping is requested with memory
> semantics, it must allow unaligned accesses).
>
> Rework acpi_os_map_memory() and acpi_os_ioremap() back-end to split
> them into two separate code paths:
>
> acpi_os_memmap() -> memory semantics
> acpi_os_ioremap() -> MMIO semantics
>
> The split allows the architectural implementation back-ends to detect
> the default memory attributes required by the mapping in question
> (ie the mapping API defines the semantics memory vs MMIO) and map the
> memory accordingly.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/31ffe8fc-f5ee-2858-26c5-0fd8bdd68702@arm.com
> Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun at huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun at huawei.com>
> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at rjwysocki.net>
For the arm64 bits:
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
I presume this will get merged via the ACPI tree?
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Catalin
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