On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 03:33:45PM +0000, Radha Mohan wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com wrote:
[CC-ing the maintainers - seems odd they were not cc-ed the first place]
On 27/11/13 07:34, mohun106@gmail.com wrote:
From: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla rchintakuntla@cavium.com
This patch series provides an implementation of supporting 48-bit Physical Addresses for ARMv8 platforms. It is the maximum width that any ARMv8 based processor can support.
The implementation extends the existing support of 40-bit PA.The kernel and user space will now be able to access 128TB each. With 4KB page size the Linux now will be using 4 levels of page tables by making use of 'pud'. And with 64KB page size the Linux will be using 3 levels of page tables.
The code has been tested with LTP.
Aside from finding out whether or not this is a useful change, this breaks KVM, more specifically the way kernel pages are mapped into HYP. Also, guests will still be limited to 40-bit IPAs, and the stage-2 output range needs to be addressed as well.
This is useful for platforms (like ours) that will use 48-bit PAs. Sooner or later there will be such processors. And yes, I haven't checked on KVM.
It may well break the ARM SMMU driver without further changes there, too.
Will