[RFC PATCH 7/9] powerpc/mm/book3s-64: Shuffle read, write, execute and user bits in PTE
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sun Feb 21 18:30:54 AEDT 2016
Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org> writes:
> This moves the _PAGE_EXEC, _PAGE_RW and _PAGE_USER bits around in
> the Linux PTE on 64-bit Book 3S systems to correspond with the bit
> positions used in radix mode by PowerISA v3.0 CPUs. This also adds
> a _PAGE_READ bit corresponding to the read permission bit in the
> radix PTE. _PAGE_READ is currently unused but could possibly be used
> in future to improve pte_protnone().
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h
> index c8eba0e..0fc750c 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h
> @@ -13,9 +13,12 @@
> * We could create separate kernel read-only if we used the 3 PP bits
> * combinations that newer processors provide but we currently don't.
> */
> -#define _PAGE_BIT_SWAP_TYPE 2
> -#define _PAGE_USER 0x00004 /* page may be accessed by userspace */
> -#define _PAGE_EXEC 0x00008 /* execute permission */
> +#define _PAGE_BIT_SWAP_TYPE 0
> +
> +#define _PAGE_EXEC 0x00001 /* execute permission */
> +#define _PAGE_RW 0x00002 /* read & write access allowed */
> +#define _PAGE_READ 0x00004 /* read access allowed */
> +#define _PAGE_USER 0x00008 /* page may be accessed by userspace */
> #define _PAGE_GUARDED 0x00010 /* G: guarded (side-effect) page */
> /* M (memory coherence) is always set in the HPTE, so we don't need it here */
> #define _PAGE_COHERENT 0x0
> @@ -23,7 +26,6 @@
> #define _PAGE_WRITETHRU 0x00040 /* W: cache write-through */
> #define _PAGE_DIRTY 0x00080 /* C: page changed */
> #define _PAGE_ACCESSED 0x00100 /* R: page referenced */
> -#define _PAGE_RW 0x00200 /* software: user write access allowed */
> #define _PAGE_BUSY 0x00800 /* software: PTE & hash are busy */
> #define _PAGE_SPECIAL 0x10000 /* software: special page */
>
For radix, _PAGE_USER is the inverse of this right ?. Ie, we set that
bit position to 1 to indicate privileged access only.
Also can you use constants like
#define _PAGE_USER PPC_BIT(60)
-aneesh
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