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| author | Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> | 2007-07-11 21:02:15 +0400 |
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| committer | Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 2007-07-11 22:34:49 +0400 |
| commit | 012b7105cc816fb797eb1c161cdfc0052b5c3f53 (patch) | |
| tree | 084ede189a3284c17f09ea68d0d4573d95e7499f /Documentation/ia64/aliasing.txt | |
| parent | 9e121327b37b751ef66e6f57e2d02dd568955148 (diff) | |
| download | linux-012b7105cc816fb797eb1c161cdfc0052b5c3f53.tar.xz | |
[IA64] prevent MCA when performing MMIO mmap to PCI config space
Example memory map (HP rx7640 with 'default' acpiconfig setting, VGA disabled):
0x00000000 - 0x3FFFBFFF supports only WB (cacheable) access
If a user attempts to perform an MMIO mmap (using the PCIIOC_MMAP_IS_MEM ioctl)
to PCI config space (like mmap'ing and accessing memory at 0xA0000),
we will MCA because the kernel will attempt to use a mapping with the UC
attribute.
So check the memory attribute in kern_mmap and the EFI memmap. If WC is
requested, and WC or UC access is supported for the region, allow it.
Otherwise, use the same attribute the kernel uses.
Updates documentation and test cases as well.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ia64/aliasing.txt')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ia64/aliasing.txt b/Documentation/ia64/aliasing.txt index 9a431a7d0f5d..aa3e953f0f7b 100644 --- a/Documentation/ia64/aliasing.txt +++ b/Documentation/ia64/aliasing.txt @@ -112,6 +112,18 @@ POTENTIAL ATTRIBUTE ALIASING CASES The /dev/mem mmap constraints apply. + mmap of /proc/bus/pci/.../??.? + + This is an MMIO mmap of PCI functions, which additionally may or + may not be requested as using the WC attribute. + + If WC is requested, and the region in kern_memmap is either WC + or UC, and the EFI memory map designates the region as WC, then + the WC mapping is allowed. + + Otherwise, the user mapping must use the same attribute as the + kernel mapping. + read/write of /dev/mem This uses copy_from_user(), which implicitly uses a kernel |