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From: santosh.shilimkar@ti•com (Santosh Shilimkar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] ARM: mvebu: disable I/O coherency on !SMP
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:04:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C7F40A.800@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5105942.b7kcvNdlC8@wuerfel>

On Thursday 17 July 2014 11:53 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 17 July 2014 16:34:01 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 04:40:21PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Thursday 17 July 2014 15:27:20 Will Deacon wrote:
>>>> Just an FYI, but I've had to check internally to clarify the behaviour
>>>> around TLB conflict aborts. We're changing live page tables here, but the
>>>> *only* thing to differ is the output address, which I would hope is ok but
>>>> need to check to be sure.
>>>
>>> The two cases are slightly different:
>>>
>>> - The existing keystone code changes the output address but not the flags
>>> - The hypothetical mvebu code needs to change the flags but not the address.
>>
>> Don't base too much confidence in the keystone code:
> 
> What I meant was that verifying the correctness of one of the two above
> with the architecture team doesn't mean that the other one is okay too.
> 
>>         map_start = init_mm.start_code;
>>         map_end   = init_mm.brk;
>>
>>         phys = __pa(map_start) & PMD_MASK;
>>         do {
>> ...
>>                 phys += PMD_SIZE;
>>         } while (phys < map_end);
>>
>> Consider what happens when map_end is not PMD aligned - it misses the
>> PMD covering the end of the kernel BSS, which will be quite a common
>> case.  Obviously something that needs fixing...
> 
> Ouch.
> 
Thanks for spotting it RMK. Will have a loot at it.

regards,
Santosh

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-17 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-02 16:21 [PATCH 0/3] ARM: mvebu: disable I/O coherency on !SMP Thomas Petazzoni
2014-07-02 16:21 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: mvebu: make the coherency_ll.S functions work with no coherency fabric Thomas Petazzoni
2014-07-02 16:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: mvebu: disable I/O coherency on non-SMP situations on Armada 370/XP Thomas Petazzoni
2014-07-02 16:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: mvebu: add missing of_node_put() call in coherency.c Thomas Petazzoni
2014-07-02 16:27 ` [PATCH 0/3] ARM: mvebu: disable I/O coherency on !SMP Andrew Lunn
2014-07-02 16:41 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-02 17:18   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-07-02 17:58     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-02 20:28       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-07-02 21:33         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-02 21:50           ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-07-17  8:24   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-07-17  8:33     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-17  8:45       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-07-17 10:27         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-17 10:16       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-17 12:39       ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-17 13:12         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-17 14:27           ` Will Deacon
2014-07-17 14:40             ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-17 15:34               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-17 15:53                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-17 16:04                   ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
2014-07-17 16:10                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-17 16:18                       ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-07-28 17:46             ` Will Deacon

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