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Message-ID: <20150724162654.GB21177@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:26:54 +0100
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>
Cc: "Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang" <zjzhang@...eaurora.org>,
"fu.wei@...aro.org" <fu.wei@...aro.org>,
"al.stone@...aro.org" <al.stone@...aro.org>,
"bp @ alien8 . de Matt Fleming" <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
"rjw@...ysocki.net" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 3/5] arm64: mm: add PROT_DEVICE_nGnRnE and
PROT_NORMAL_WT
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 05:15:00PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:59:18PM +0100, Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang wrote:
> > *
> > * n = AttrIndx[2:0]
> > * n MAIR
> > @@ -303,12 +303,14 @@ ENTRY(__cpu_setup)
> > * DEVICE_GRE 010 00001100
> > * NORMAL_NC 011 01000100
> > * NORMAL 100 11111111
> > + * NORMAL_WT 101 10111011
>
> I don't think the write allocation hint makes much sense for WT memory
> (though it shouldn't cause issues either). Just use 10101010.
The EFI spec actually specifies the 1011 1011 encoding, so I think we should
follow that.
Will
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