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authorSricharan R <r.sricharan@ti.com>2013-07-29 20:26:22 +0530
committerSantosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>2013-10-10 20:25:06 -0400
commitf52bb722547f43caeaecbcc62db9f3c3b80ead9b (patch)
tree99c0fbf6fb94053b5ed81ebfc84ee7010871f05d /arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c
parentc1a5f4f6733e39c3b780ff14ad6a68252475e7a9 (diff)
ARM: mm: Correct virt_to_phys patching for 64 bit physical addresses
The current phys_to_virt patching mechanism works only for 32 bit physical addresses and this patch extends the idea for 64bit physical addresses. The 64bit v2p patching mechanism patches the higher 8 bits of physical address with a constant using 'mov' instruction and lower 32bits are patched using 'add'. While this is correct, in those platforms where the lowmem addressable physical memory spawns across 4GB boundary, a carry bit can be produced as a result of addition of lower 32bits. This has to be taken in to account and added in to the upper. The patched __pv_offset and va are added in lower 32bits, where __pv_offset can be in two's complement form when PA_START < VA_START and that can result in a false carry bit. e.g 1) PA = 0x80000000; VA = 0xC0000000 __pv_offset = PA - VA = 0xC0000000 (2's complement) 2) PA = 0x2 80000000; VA = 0xC000000 __pv_offset = PA - VA = 0x1 C0000000 So adding __pv_offset + VA should never result in a true overflow for (1). So in order to differentiate between a true carry, a __pv_offset is extended to 64bit and the upper 32bits will have 0xffffffff if __pv_offset is 2's complement. So 'mvn #0' is inserted instead of 'mov' while patching for the same reason. Since mov, add, sub instruction are to patched with different constants inside the same stub, the rotation field of the opcode is using to differentiate between them. So the above examples for v2p translation becomes for VA=0xC0000000, 1) PA[63:32] = 0xffffffff PA[31:0] = VA + 0xC0000000 --> results in a carry PA[63:32] = PA[63:32] + carry PA[63:0] = 0x0 80000000 2) PA[63:32] = 0x1 PA[31:0] = VA + 0xC0000000 --> results in a carry PA[63:32] = PA[63:32] + carry PA[63:0] = 0x2 80000000 The above ideas were suggested by Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> as part of the review of first and second versions of the subject patch. There is no corresponding change on the phys_to_virt() side, because computations on the upper 32-bits would be discarded anyway. Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Sricharan R <r.sricharan@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c b/arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c
index 60d3b738d420..1f031ddd0667 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c
@@ -155,4 +155,5 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__gnu_mcount_nc);
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__pv_phys_offset);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__pv_offset);
#endif