On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 05:21:16PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 05:02:25PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On 27/01/14 16:57, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:16:57AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > >> On 24/01/14 23:37, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > >>> On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 08:27:23AM -0800, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > >>>> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
> > >>>> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
> > >>>> @@ -120,13 +120,19 @@
> > >>>> /*
> > >>>> * 2nd stage PTE definitions for LPAE.
> > >>>> */
> > >>>> -#define L_PTE_S2_MT_UNCACHED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x5) << 2) /*
> > >>>> MemAttr[3:0] */
> > >>>> -#define L_PTE_S2_MT_WRITETHROUGH (_AT(pteval_t, 0xa) << 2) /*
> > >>>> MemAttr[3:0] */
> > >>>> -#define L_PTE_S2_MT_WRITEBACK (_AT(pteval_t, 0xf) << 2) /*
> > >>>> MemAttr[3:0] */
> > >>>> -#define L_PTE_S2_RDONLY (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 6) /*
> > >>>> HAP[1] */
> > >>>> -#define L_PTE_S2_RDWR (_AT(pteval_t, 3) << 6) /* HAP[2:1]
> > >>>> */
> > >>>> -
> > >>>> -#define L_PMD_S2_RDWR (_AT(pmdval_t, 3) << 6) /* HAP[2:1]
> > >>>> */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_UNCACHED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x0) << 2) /*
> > >>>> strongly ordered */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_WRITETHROUGH (_AT(pteval_t, 0xa) << 2) /*
> > >>>> normal inner write-through */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_WRITEBACK (_AT(pteval_t, 0xf) << 2) /*
> > >>>> normal inner write-back */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_DEV_SHARED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x1) <<
> > >>>> 2) /* device */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_DEV_NONSHARED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x1) << 2) /*
> > >>>> device */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_DEV_WC (_AT(pteval_t, 0x5) << 2) /*
> > >>>> normal non-cacheable */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_DEV_CACHED (_AT(pteval_t, 0xf) <<
> > >>>> 2) /* normal inner write-back */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_MT_MASK (_AT(pteval_t, 0xf) << 2)
> > >>>> +
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_RDONLY (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 6)
> > >>>> /* HAP[1] */
> > >>>> +#define L_PTE_S2_RDWR (_AT(pteval_t, 3) << 6) /*
> > >>>> HAP[2:1] */
> > >>>> +
> > >>>> +#define L_PMD_S2_RDWR (_AT(pmdval_t, 3) << 6) /*
> > >>>> HAP[2:1] */
> > >>>>
> > >>>> /*
> > >>>> * Hyp-mode PL2 PTE definitions for LPAE.
> > >>
> > >> The change makes sense to me. arm64 uses a slightly different approach,
> > >> by using a PTE_S2_MEMATTR macro, but I'm not sure that would work for
> > >> ARM.
> > >>
> > >> Russell, Catalin: could you please have a look at this?
> > >
> > > Do we actually need more than Normal Cacheable and Device for stage 2?
> >
> > Not so far. As long as these two memory types are enforced as a minimum,
> > we're quite happy to let the guest use whatever it decides.
> >
> > I suppose Christoffer introduces them all here as a matter of
> > completeness, but I don't see them as being useful anytime soon.
>
> That would be useful on arm if you want cachepolicy= argument to force
> the cacheability of guest Normal memory type.
>
> On arm64, the stage 1 memory type is decided via MAIR and that's how we
> handle cachepolicy for Normal memory. But for stage 2 this won't work,
> the type is explicitly set in the MemAttr encoding. But I don't think we
> need host cachepolicy enforced onto guest.
>
ok, sent out a V2. Thanks for the comments.
-Christoffer
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