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Howlett" , Andy Whitcroft , Dwaipayan Ray , Joe Perches , Julia Lawall , Lukas Bulwahn , Nicolas Palix References: <20251113014656.2605447-1-samuel.holland@sifive.com> From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <20251113014656.2605447-1-samuel.holland@sifive.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Server: rspam06 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 071554001A X-Stat-Signature: 35ufsg7boass1jg1zgn3y7xw9e6fyrn1 X-Rspam-User: X-HE-Tag: 1763061241-182754 X-HE-Meta: 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 tuAZlKlj gv5xvQ+QDZf6TDuK4KMtG6mrQ8Jk08IAuJDD5e/M6n/1onKJiaCxZXGtVQyM5rWGRrYHfJ0EXN60uT9QwaxZk9Vsfx9PqEVK9Xu7NjHeAC+Ji9zLEvdUhqTON2bfBd32xynrWzrISluvYsDFw9ZTGxQQ9QmPeknpFSKXzc+koMAUisyDMOU6gQPPuQ5ePtQKXeNArKZLqTfsrhc/1XEvcY0rQ999WkuUbMvHPNVrzZF1JXKe8tmkRKs5PY/tseDbpbnw8ZCvLyDOkKSBcmdUh0fcOTv3tsLQpx92GfXGi5YPsI2CqUe8YAEHktxVlVIw8RdtXbUoUi65aW8w= X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 13.11.25 02:45, Samuel Holland wrote: > > On some RISC-V platforms, including StarFive JH7100 and ESWIN EIC7700, > DRAM is mapped to multiple physical address ranges, with each alias > having a different set of statically-determined Physical Memory > Attributes (PMAs), such as cacheability. Software can alter the PMAs for > a page by selecting a PFN from the corresponding physical address range. > On these platforms, this is the only way to allocate noncached memory > for use with noncoherent DMA. > > These physical memory aliases are only visible to architecture code. > Generic MM code only ever sees the primary (cacheable) alias. The major > change from v1 of this series is that I was asked to move the hooks from > pfn_pXX()/pXX_pfn() to set_pXX()/pXXp_get(). > > - Patches 1-10 ensure that architecture-specific code that hooks page > table reads and writes is always called, and the calls are balanced. It is not immediately clear to me from the description why that is required. Can you summarize the core problem here, and why we have to route everything through these accessors? -- Cheers David