On 07/12/2019 03:51 AM, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> Some valid RAM can live outside kernel control (e.g. using mem= kernel
> command-line). For these regions, pfn_valid would return "false" causing
> system RAM to be mapped as uncached. Use memblock instead to identify RAM.
Once the remaining memory is outside of the kernel (as the admin would have
intended with mem= command line) what is the particular concern regarding
the way those get mapped (cached or not) ? It is not to be used any way.
>
> Cc: Russell King <li...@armlinux.org.uk>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <r...@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.rox...@linaro.org>
> Cc: Enrico Weigelt <i...@metux.net>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karah...@amazon.de>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>
> Cc: James Morse <james.mo...@arm.com>
> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khand...@arm.com>
> Cc: Jun Yao <yaojun8558...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuz...@google.com>
> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.mur...@arm.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karah...@amazon.de>
> ---
> arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 2 +-
> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> index 1aa2586..492774b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ static void __init build_mem_type_table(void)
> pgprot_t phys_mem_access_prot(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn,
> unsigned long size, pgprot_t vma_prot)
> {
> - if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
> + if (!memblock_is_memory(__pfn_to_phys(pfn)))
> return pgprot_noncached(vma_prot);
> else if (file->f_flags & O_SYNC)
> return pgprot_writecombine(vma_prot);
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index 3645f29..cdc3e8e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ void set_swapper_pgd(pgd_t *pgdp, pgd_t pgd)
> pgprot_t phys_mem_access_prot(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn,
> unsigned long size, pgprot_t vma_prot)
> {
> - if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
> + if (!memblock_is_memory(__pfn_to_phys(pfn)))
pfn_valid() on arm64 checks if the memblock region is mapped i.e does it have
a linear mapping or not. If a segment of RAM is outside linear mapping due to
mem= directive and lacks a linear mapping then why should it be mapped similarly
like system RAM on this path ?
