[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 08/14] virt-dt: Allow reservation of secure region when in a RAM carveout

Thierry Reding treding at nvidia.com
Thu Mar 12 09:18:01 CET 2015


On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:12:25AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 08:00:18AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 
> > In this case the secure code lives in RAM, and hence the memory node in
> > the device tree needs to be adjusted. This avoids that the OS will map
> > and possibly access the reservation.
> > 
> > Add support for setting CONFIG_ARMV7_SECURE_RESERVE_SIZE to carve out
> > such a region. We only support cutting off memory from the beginning or
> > the end of a RAM bank as we do not want to increase their number (which
> > would happen if punching a hole) for simplicity reasons
> > 
> > This will be used in a subsequent patch for Jetson-TK1.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/cpu/armv7/virt-dt.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> My concern here is that this looks a lot like things we would re-use on
> armv8 and we're making them potentially needlessly v7-centric.  If
> nothing else, the function names should be generic and this be the v7
> implementation of them, yes?

In my opinion it's fine to go along with this and then refactor things
once we have an ARMv8 board that makes use of this.

Thierry
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