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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:51:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To: Dave Martin <dave.martin@...aro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 RESEND 05/17] ARM: LPAE: support 64-bit virt_to_phys
patching
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:56:03AM -0400, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:
> > This patch adds support for 64-bit physical addresses in virt_to_phys()
> > patching. This does not do real 64-bit add/sub, but instead patches in the
> > upper 32-bits of the phys_offset directly into the output of virt_to_phys.
> >
> > There is no corresponding change on the phys_to_virt() side, because
> > computations on the upper 32-bits would be discarded anyway.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@...com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > arch/arm/kernel/head.S | 4 ++++
> > arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
> > 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
> > index 88ca206..f3e8f88 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
> > @@ -154,13 +154,47 @@
> > #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT
> >
> > extern unsigned long __pv_offset;
> > -extern unsigned long __pv_phys_offset;
> > +extern phys_addr_t __pv_phys_offset;
> > #define PHYS_OFFSET __virt_to_phys(PAGE_OFFSET)
> >
> > static inline phys_addr_t __virt_to_phys(unsigned long x)
> > {
> > - unsigned long t;
> > + phys_addr_t t;
> > +
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
> > early_patch_imm8("add", t, x, __pv_offset, 0);
> > +#else
> > + unsigned long __tmp;
> > +
> > +#ifndef __ARMEB__
> > +#define PV_PHYS_HIGH "(__pv_phys_offset + 4)"
> > +#else
> > +#define PV_PHYS_HIGH "__pv_phys_offset"
> > +#endif
> > +
> > + early_patch_stub(
> > + /* type */ PATCH_IMM8,
> > + /* code */
> > + "ldr %[tmp], =__pv_offset\n"
> > + "ldr %[tmp], [%[tmp]]\n"
> > + "add %Q[to], %[from], %[tmp]\n"
> > + "ldr %[tmp], =" PV_PHYS_HIGH "\n"
> > + "ldr %[tmp], [%[tmp]]\n"
> > + "mov %R[to], %[tmp]\n",
> > + /* pad */ 4,
> > + /* patch_data */
> > + ".long __pv_offset\n"
> > + "add %Q[to], %[from], %[imm]\n"
> > + ".long " PV_PHYS_HIGH "\n"
> > + "mov %R[to], %[imm]\n",
> > + /* operands */
> > + : [to] "=r" (t),
> > + [tmp] "=&r" (__tmp)
> > + : [from] "r" (x),
> > + [imm] "I" (__IMM8),
> > + "i" (&__pv_offset),
> > + "i" (&__pv_phys_offset));
>
> So, the actual offset we can apply is:
>
> __pv_phys_offset + __pv_offset
>
> where:
>
> * the high 32 bits of the address being fixed up are assumed to be 0
> (true, because the kernel is initially always fixed up to an address
> range <4GB)
The fixed up address is a virtual address. So yes, by definition it
must be <4GB on ARM32.
> * the low 32 bits of __pv_phys_offset are assumed to be 0 (?)
It is typically representable with a shifted 8 bit immediate but not
necessarily 0, just like on platforms without LPAE.
> * the full offset is of the form
>
> ([..0..]XX[..0..] << 32) | [..0..]YY[..0..]
>
> Is this intentional? It seems like a rather weird constraint... but
> it may be sensible. PAGE_OFFSET is probably 0xc0000000 or 0x80000000,
> (so YY can handle that) and the actual RAM above 4GB will likely be
> huge and aligned on some enormous boundary in such situations (so that
> XX can handle that).
>
> So long as the low RAM alias is not misaligned relative to the high alias
> on a finer granularity than 16MB (so that YY = (PAGE_OFFSET +/- the
> misalignment) is still a legal immediate), I guess there should not be a
> problem.
There are already similar constraints for the current
ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT code. So nothing really new here.
Nicolas
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