Commit 3e4e1d3f authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig

arm64: document the choice of page attributes for pgprot_dmacoherent

Based on an email from Will Deacon.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
parent 8e3a68fb
......@@ -435,6 +435,14 @@ static inline pmd_t pmd_mkdevmap(pmd_t pmd)
__pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC) | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)
#define pgprot_device(prot) \
__pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_nGnRE) | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)
/*
* DMA allocations for non-coherent devices use what the Arm architecture calls
* "Normal non-cacheable" memory, which permits speculation, unaligned accesses
* and merging of writes. This is different from "Device-nGnR[nE]" memory which
* is intended for MMIO and thus forbids speculation, preserves access size,
* requires strict alignment and can also force write responses to come from the
* endpoint.
*/
#define pgprot_dmacoherent(prot) \
__pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, \
PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC) | PTE_PXN | PTE_UXN)
......
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