linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 13/31] arm64: Device specific operations

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20120914173946.GE2927@arm.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:39:46 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	"linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/31] arm64: Device specific operations

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 06:31:59PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 14 September 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > (revisiting unanswered emails :))
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:33:55AM +0100, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:52:14PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > > +/*
> > > > + *  I/O port access primitives.
> > > > + */
> > > > +#define IO_SPACE_LIMIT             0xffff
> > > > +
> > > > +/*
> > > > + * We currently don't have any platform with PCI support, so just leave this
> > > > + * defined to 0 until needed.
> > > > + */
> > > > +#define PCI_IOBASE         ((void __iomem *)0)
> > > 
> > > You could just leave out the PCI / I/O code alltogether instead.
> > 
> > I would leave this in as some of the first platforms to appear will have
> > PCIe. At some point we'll add a fixed address where the PCI_IOBASE is
> > mapped.
> > 
> 
> I guess the cleanest way would be to reserve a virtual memory region right away
> and document it in the file where you describe the memory layout. Then you can
> fill the value in here.

Yes, easy to do. Any access will fault until we add the PCI support.

-- 
Catalin
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/