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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2015-07-01 15:23:10 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2015-07-03 17:06:57 +0100
commit9ab79bb22cc77adcca5ebbadea6caec6a478f283 (patch)
tree24332575bd5376a261ce621297903c8623f7ccd4 /arch/arm/include
parent20a1080dff2f1be8933baa0d910c41882c7279ee (diff)
ARM: pgtable: document mapping types
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h31
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
index bfd662e49a25..aeddd28b3595 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
@@ -129,7 +129,36 @@
/*
* These are the memory types, defined to be compatible with
- * pre-ARMv6 CPUs cacheable and bufferable bits: XXCB
+ * pre-ARMv6 CPUs cacheable and bufferable bits: n/a,n/a,C,B
+ * ARMv6+ without TEX remapping, they are a table index.
+ * ARMv6+ with TEX remapping, they correspond to n/a,TEX(0),C,B
+ *
+ * MT type Pre-ARMv6 ARMv6+ type / cacheable status
+ * UNCACHED Uncached Strongly ordered
+ * BUFFERABLE Bufferable Normal memory / non-cacheable
+ * WRITETHROUGH Writethrough Normal memory / write through
+ * WRITEBACK Writeback Normal memory / write back, read alloc
+ * MINICACHE Minicache N/A
+ * WRITEALLOC Writeback Normal memory / write back, write alloc
+ * DEV_SHARED Uncached Device memory (shared)
+ * DEV_NONSHARED Uncached Device memory (non-shared)
+ * DEV_WC Bufferable Normal memory / non-cacheable
+ * DEV_CACHED Writeback Normal memory / write back, read alloc
+ * VECTORS Variable Normal memory / variable
+ *
+ * All normal memory mappings have the following properties:
+ * - reads can be repeated with no side effects
+ * - repeated reads return the last value written
+ * - reads can fetch additional locations without side effects
+ * - writes can be repeated (in certain cases) with no side effects
+ * - writes can be merged before accessing the target
+ * - unaligned accesses can be supported
+ *
+ * All device mappings have the following properties:
+ * - no access speculation
+ * - no repetition (eg, on return from an exception)
+ * - number, order and size of accesses are maintained
+ * - unaligned accesses are "unpredictable"
*/
#define L_PTE_MT_UNCACHED (_AT(pteval_t, 0x00) << 2) /* 0000 */
#define L_PTE_MT_BUFFERABLE (_AT(pteval_t, 0x01) << 2) /* 0001 */