1. 14 12月, 2014 2 次提交
  2. 12 12月, 2014 2 次提交
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      pstore-ram: Allow optional mapping with pgprot_noncached · 027bc8b0
      Tony Lindgren 提交于
      On some ARMs the memory can be mapped pgprot_noncached() and still
      be working for atomic operations. As pointed out by Colin Cross
      <ccross@android.com>, in some cases you do want to use
      pgprot_noncached() if the SoC supports it to see a debug printk
      just before a write hanging the system.
      
      On ARMs, the atomic operations on strongly ordered memory are
      implementation defined. So let's provide an optional kernel parameter
      for configuring pgprot_noncached(), and use pgprot_writecombine() by
      default.
      
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
      Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
      Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
      Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
      Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Acked-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Signed-off-by: NTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      027bc8b0
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      pstore-ram: Fix hangs by using write-combine mappings · 7ae9cb81
      Rob Herring 提交于
      Currently trying to use pstore on at least ARMs can hang as we're
      mapping the peristent RAM with pgprot_noncached().
      
      On ARMs, pgprot_noncached() will actually make the memory strongly
      ordered, and as the atomic operations pstore uses are implementation
      defined for strongly ordered memory, they may not work. So basically
      atomic operations have undefined behavior on ARM for device or strongly
      ordered memory types.
      
      Let's fix the issue by using write-combine variants for mappings. This
      corresponds to normal, non-cacheable memory on ARM. For many other
      architectures, this change does not change the mapping type as by
      default we have:
      
      #define pgprot_writecombine pgprot_noncached
      
      The reason why pgprot_noncached() was originaly used for pstore
      is because Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> had observed lost
      debug prints right before a device hanging write operation on some
      systems. For the platforms supporting pgprot_noncached(), we can
      add a an optional configuration option to support that. But let's
      get pstore working first before adding new features.
      
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
      Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
      Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
      Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Acked-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Signed-off-by: NRob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
      [tony@atomide.com: updated description]
      Signed-off-by: NTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      7ae9cb81
  3. 11 12月, 2014 36 次提交