Re: [PATCH] omap: iommu: disallow mapping NULL address

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From: ext David Cohen <dacohen@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] omap: iommu: disallow mapping NULL address
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 21:41:21 +0200

> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Guzman Lugo, Fernando
> <fernando.lugo@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:19 PM, David Cohen <dacohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Guzman Lugo, Fernando
>>> <fernando.lugo@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Michael Jones
>>>> <michael.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> From e7dbe4c4b64eb114f9b0804d6af3a3ca0e78acc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>>> From: Michael Jones <michael.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 13:36:15 +0100
>>>>> Subject: [PATCH] omap: iommu: disallow mapping NULL address
>>>>>
>>>>> commit c7f4ab26e3bcdaeb3e19ec658e3ad9092f1a6ceb allowed mapping
>>>>> the NULL address if da_start==0.  Force da_start to exclude the
>>>>> first page.
>>>>
>>>> what about devices that uses page 0? ipu after reset always starts
>>>> from 0x00000000 how could we map that address??
>>>
>>> from 0x0? The driver sees da == 0 as error. May I ask you why do you want it?
>>
>> unlike DSP that you can load a register with the addres the DSP will
>> boot, IPU core always starts from address 0x00000000, so if you take
>> IPU out of reset it will try to access address 0x0 if not map it,
>> there will be a mmu fault.
> 
> Hm. Looks like the iommu should not restrict any da. The valid da
> range should rely only on pdata.
> Michael, what about just update ISP's da_start on omap-iommu.c file?
> Set it to 0x1000.
> 
> Hiroshi, any opinion?

We have assumed that 'da == 0' is NULL so far. According to Fernando's
explanation, 'da == 0' should be allowed in iovmm layer by default.
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