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<title>ARM: improve compiler's ability to optimize page tables</title>
<updated>2010-11-21T14:42:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2010-11-21T14:42:47+00:00</published>
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Allow the compiler to better optimize the page table walking code
by avoiding over-complex pmd_addr_end() calculations.  These
calculations prevent the compiler spotting that we'll never iterate
over the PMD table, causing it to create double nested loops where
a single loop will do.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Allow the compiler to better optimize the page table walking code
by avoiding over-complex pmd_addr_end() calculations.  These
calculations prevent the compiler spotting that we'll never iterate
over the PMD table, causing it to create double nested loops where
a single loop will do.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>mm: remove pte_*map_nested()</title>
<updated>2010-10-26T23:52:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
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<published>2010-10-26T21:21:52+00:00</published>
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Since we no longer need to provide KM_type, the whole pte_*map_nested()
API is now redundant, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Since we no longer need to provide KM_type, the whole pte_*map_nested()
API is now redundant, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branches 'at91', 'dcache', 'ftrace', 'hwbpt', 'misc', 'mmci', 's3c', 'st-ux' and 'unwind' into devel</title>
<updated>2010-10-18T21:34:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2010-10-18T21:34:25+00:00</published>
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<title>ARM: 6383/1: Implement phys_mem_access_prot() to avoid attributes aliasing</title>
<updated>2010-09-19T11:19:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
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<published>2010-09-13T15:01:24+00:00</published>
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ARMv7 onwards requires that there are no aliases to the same physical
location using different memory types (i.e. Normal vs Strongly Ordered).
Access to SO mappings when the unaligned accesses are handled in
hardware is also Unpredictable (pgprot_noncached() mappings in user
space).

The /dev/mem driver requires uncached mappings with O_SYNC. The patch
implements the phys_mem_access_prot() function which generates Strongly
Ordered memory attributes if !pfn_valid() (independent of O_SYNC) and
Normal Noncacheable (writecombine) if O_SYNC.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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ARMv7 onwards requires that there are no aliases to the same physical
location using different memory types (i.e. Normal vs Strongly Ordered).
Access to SO mappings when the unaligned accesses are handled in
hardware is also Unpredictable (pgprot_noncached() mappings in user
space).

The /dev/mem driver requires uncached mappings with O_SYNC. The patch
implements the phys_mem_access_prot() function which generates Strongly
Ordered memory attributes if !pfn_valid() (independent of O_SYNC) and
Normal Noncacheable (writecombine) if O_SYNC.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: 6380/1: Introduce __sync_icache_dcache() for VIPT caches</title>
<updated>2010-09-19T11:17:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-13T14:58:06+00:00</published>
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On SMP systems, there is a small chance of a PTE becoming visible to a
different CPU before the current cache maintenance operations in
update_mmu_cache(). To avoid this, cache maintenance must be handled in
set_pte_at() (similar to IA-64 and PowerPC).

This patch provides a unified VIPT cache handling mechanism and
implements the __sync_icache_dcache() function for ARMv6 onwards
architectures. It is called from set_pte_at() and replaces the
update_mmu_cache(). The latter is still used on VIVT hardware where a
vm_area_struct is required.

Tested-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin.vincent@stericsson.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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On SMP systems, there is a small chance of a PTE becoming visible to a
different CPU before the current cache maintenance operations in
update_mmu_cache(). To avoid this, cache maintenance must be handled in
set_pte_at() (similar to IA-64 and PowerPC).

This patch provides a unified VIPT cache handling mechanism and
implements the __sync_icache_dcache() function for ARMv6 onwards
architectures. It is called from set_pte_at() and replaces the
update_mmu_cache(). The latter is still used on VIVT hardware where a
vm_area_struct is required.

Tested-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin.vincent@stericsson.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nicolas.pitre@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ARM: Optionally allow ARMv6 to use 'normal, bufferable' memory for DMA</title>
<updated>2010-05-17T10:52:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-15T10:02:43+00:00</published>
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Provide a configuration option to allow the ARMv6 to use normal
bufferable memory for coherent DMA.  This option is forced to 'y'
for ARMv7, and offered as a configuration option on ARMv6.

Enabling this option requires drivers to have the necessary barriers
to ensure that data in DMA coherent memory is visible prior to the
DMA operation commencing.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Provide a configuration option to allow the ARMv6 to use normal
bufferable memory for coherent DMA.  This option is forced to 'y'
for ARMv7, and offered as a configuration option on ARMv6.

Enabling this option requires drivers to have the necessary barriers
to ensure that data in DMA coherent memory is visible prior to the
DMA operation commencing.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: dma-mapping: switch ARMv7 DMA mappings to retain 'memory' attribute</title>
<updated>2009-11-24T17:41:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-20T21:06:43+00:00</published>
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On ARMv7, it is invalid to map the same physical address multiple times
with different memory types.  Since system RAM is already mapped as
'memory', subsequent remapping of it must retain this attribute.

However, DMA memory maps it as "strongly ordered".  Fix this by introducing
'pgprot_dmacoherent()' which provides the necessary page table bits for
DMA mappings.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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On ARMv7, it is invalid to map the same physical address multiple times
with different memory types.  Since system RAM is already mapped as
'memory', subsequent remapping of it must retain this attribute.

However, DMA memory maps it as "strongly ordered".  Fix this by introducing
'pgprot_dmacoherent()' which provides the necessary page table bits for
DMA mappings.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>ARM: implement highpte</title>
<updated>2009-08-17T19:02:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-17T19:02:06+00:00</published>
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Add the ARM implementation of highpte, which allows PTE tables to be
placed in highmem.  Unfortunately, we do not offer highpte support
when support for L2 cache is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Add the ARM implementation of highpte, which allows PTE tables to be
placed in highmem.  Unfortunately, we do not offer highpte support
when support for L2 cache is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[ARM] pgtable: rearrange file PTE bit allocation</title>
<updated>2009-07-11T15:59:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-11T15:57:20+00:00</published>
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For future compatibility, we need to ensure that swap and file Linux
PTEs conform with the hardware PTEs "fault" encoding.  Swap PTEs
already fit in with this, but file PTEs do not.  Shift them by one
bit to ensure that they conform, using bit 2 to distinguish between
swap and file PTEs.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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For future compatibility, we need to ensure that swap and file Linux
PTEs conform with the hardware PTEs "fault" encoding.  Swap PTEs
already fit in with this, but file PTEs do not.  Shift them by one
bit to ensure that they conform, using bit 2 to distinguish between
swap and file PTEs.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[ARM] remove L_PTE_BUFFERABLE and L_PTE_CACHEABLE</title>
<updated>2009-07-11T15:55:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-11T15:51:40+00:00</published>
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These old symbols are meaningless now that we have memory type
support implemented.  The entire memory type field needs to be
modified rather than just a few bits twiddled.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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These old symbols are meaningless now that we have memory type
support implemented.  The entire memory type field needs to be
modified rather than just a few bits twiddled.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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