Hi Santosh,
Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch populates the L1 entries for MT_MEMORY and MT_MEMORY_NONCACHED
> types so that at boot-up, we can map memories outside system memory
> at page level granularity
>
> Previously the mapping was limiting to section level, which creates
> unnecessary addiotional mapping for which physical memory may not
> present. On the newer ARM with speculation, this is dangerous and can
> result in untraceable aborts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> index 6e1c4f6..3e986a6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -246,6 +246,9 @@ static struct mem_type mem_types[] = {
> .domain = DOMAIN_USER,
> },
> [MT_MEMORY] = {
> + .prot_pte = L_PTE_PRESENT | L_PTE_YOUNG | L_PTE_DIRTY |
> + L_PTE_USER | L_PTE_EXEC,
> + .prot_l1 = PMD_TYPE_TABLE,
Just a quick question - does this need to have L_PTE_USER? Is it
read-only or it needs L_PTE_WRITE as well?
Thanks.
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Catalin
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