On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:59:19PM +0100, Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang wrote:
> From: "Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang" <zjzh...@codeaurora.org>
>
> If the physical address has memory attributes defined by EFI
> memmap as EFI_MEMORY_UC, the page protection type is
> PROT_DEVICE_nGnRE. Otherwise, the page protection type is
> PAGE_KERNEL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang <zjzh...@codeaurora.org>
> ---
> This patch applies cleanly to efi-next-14364 of efi/next and
> arm64-upstream-13521 of arm64/master, but needed slight change
> to apply to next-20150720 of linux-next/master and
> pm+acpi-4.2-rc3 of linux-pm/master. The later two branches
> has newer arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h with following patch:
> b6cfb277378e ACPI / ARM64: add BAD_MADT_GICC_ENTRY() macro
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
[...]
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h
> +static inline pgprot_t arch_apei_get_mem_attribute(phys_addr_t addr)
> +{
> + pgprot_t prot;
> +
> + prot = efi_mem_attributes(addr);
> + if (prot & EFI_MEMORY_UC)
> + return PROT_DEVICE_nGnRnE;
> + if (prot & EFI_MEMORY_WC)
> + return PROT_NORMAL_NC;
Can we not use pgprot_noncached and pgprot_writecombine for these two?
> + if (prot & EFI_MEMORY_WT)
> + return PROT_NORMAL_WT;
Then you could add pgprot_writethrough for this guy.
Will
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