[PATCH 02/15] ARM: Add page table and page defines needed by KVM

Christoffer Dall c.dall at virtualopensystems.com
Tue Sep 18 11:05:13 EDT 2012


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> On 18 September 2012 13:47, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 04:34:43PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>>> +#define L_PTE2_SHARED                L_PTE_SHARED
>>> +#define L_PTE2_READ          (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 6) /* HAP[0] */
>>> +#define L_PTE2_WRITE         (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 7) /* HAP[1] */
>>
>> This is actually HAP[2:1], not HAP[1:0]. Also, can you follow what we do for
>> stage 1 translation and name these RDONLY and WRONLY (do you even use
>> that?).
>
> We can't use RDONLY as this would have value 0 as the HAP attributes
> (stage 2 overriding stage 1 translation attributes). Unless you add 4
> definitions like NOACCESS, RDONLY, WRONLY and RDWR to cover all the
> bit combinations.
>
>>> +#define L_PTE2_NORM_WB               (_AT(pteval_t, 3) << 4) /* MemAttr[3:2] */
>>> +#define L_PTE2_INNER_WB              (_AT(pteval_t, 3) << 2) /* MemAttr[1:0] */
>>
>> Another minor nit: PTE2 looks awful. Maybe L_PTE_HYP_* instead?
>
> L_PTE_HYP may be confused with the Stage 1 Hyp translation which is
> different from the guest Stage 2.

exactly, it's misleading, how about L_PTE_STAGE2, a little verbose,
but clear...?

>
> But I have another minor nit - just write them in the ascending bit
> order as other definitions in this file.
>

ok, will fix.

Thanks,
-Christoffer



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