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Date:   Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:50:11 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux@...linux.org.uk,
        steve.capper@...aro.org, will.deacon@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        android-treble-mediatek-ext@...tner.android.com,
        kernel-team@...roid.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] arm: mm: reordering memory type table

On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 07:22:10PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
> index 92fd2c8a9af0..91b99fadcba1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
> @@ -164,14 +164,23 @@
>  #define L_PTE_MT_BUFFERABLE	(_AT(pteval_t, 0x01) << 2)	/* 0001 */
>  #define L_PTE_MT_WRITETHROUGH	(_AT(pteval_t, 0x02) << 2)	/* 0010 */
>  #define L_PTE_MT_WRITEBACK	(_AT(pteval_t, 0x03) << 2)	/* 0011 */
> +#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_SHARED	(_AT(pteval_t, 0x04) << 2)	/* 0100 */
>  #define L_PTE_MT_MINICACHE	(_AT(pteval_t, 0x06) << 2)	/* 0110 (sa1100, xscale) */
>  #define L_PTE_MT_WRITEALLOC	(_AT(pteval_t, 0x07) << 2)	/* 0111 */
> -#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_SHARED	(_AT(pteval_t, 0x04) << 2)	/* 0100 */
> -#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_NONSHARED	(_AT(pteval_t, 0x0c) << 2)	/* 1100 */
> +#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_V7) || defined(CONFIG_CPU_V7M) || \
> +	defined (CONFIG_CPU_V6) || defined(CONFIG_CPU_V6K)
> +#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_WC		L_PTE_MT_BUFFERABLE
> +#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_CACHED	L_PTE_MT_WRITEBACK
> +#define L_PTE_MT_DEV_NONSHARED	L_PTE_MT_MINICACHE

I think you can just ignore v7M here, it doesn't have an MMU.

You are defining L_PTE_MT_DEV_NONSHARED to L_PTE_MT_MINICACHE but what I
think you just meant is index 6 in the cpu_v6_mt_table which I would use
explicitly to avoid confusion.

Anyway, on ARMv7 or ARMv6+LPAE, the non-shared device gets mapped to
shared device in hardware. Looking through the arm32 code, it seems that
MT_DEVICE_NONSHARED is used by arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-r8a7779.c
and IIUC that's a v7 platform (R-Car H1, Cortex-A9). I think the above
should be defined to L_PTE_MT_DEV_SHARED, unless I miss any place where
DEV_NONSHARED is relevant on ARMv6 (adding Simon to confirm on
shmobile).

> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
> index 81d0efb055c6..f896a30653fa 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
> @@ -134,21 +134,21 @@
>  	.macro	armv6_mt_table pfx
>  \pfx\()_mt_table:

Since you changed the MT index, you'd have to fix proc-v7-*levels.S  as
well. If you define DEV_NONSHARED to SHARED, I think you only need to
update the index for L_PTE_MT_VECTORS.

-- 
Catalin