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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2010-09-13 19:01:24 +0400
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2010-09-19 15:19:18 +0400
commitd907387c42e9e39261629890e45a08ef4c3ed3fe (patch)
treec25c1c7bde121ccb9ac56a434113c16d24203647 /Documentation/prctl
parent79e27dc0677b969e2d53b76fa0fa58467cce946a (diff)
downloadlinux-d907387c42e9e39261629890e45a08ef4c3ed3fe.tar.xz
ARM: 6383/1: Implement phys_mem_access_prot() to avoid attributes aliasing
ARMv7 onwards requires that there are no aliases to the same physical location using different memory types (i.e. Normal vs Strongly Ordered). Access to SO mappings when the unaligned accesses are handled in hardware is also Unpredictable (pgprot_noncached() mappings in user space). The /dev/mem driver requires uncached mappings with O_SYNC. The patch implements the phys_mem_access_prot() function which generates Strongly Ordered memory attributes if !pfn_valid() (independent of O_SYNC) and Normal Noncacheable (writecombine) if O_SYNC. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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