From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] ARM64: mmu: document granule size calculation
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 19:41:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250521174104.1570239-3-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250521174104.1570239-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Copy a nice-looking ASCII table from U-Boot's cache_v8.c to help with
understanding the function.
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
---
arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c b/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c
index bc1a44d0a7b8..d9b0b74d7314 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c
@@ -176,6 +176,24 @@ static void create_sections(uint64_t virt, uint64_t phys, uint64_t size,
static size_t granule_size(int level)
{
+ /*
+ * With 4k page granule, a virtual address is split into 4 lookup parts
+ * spanning 9 bits each:
+ *
+ * _______________________________________________
+ * | | | | | | |
+ * | 0 | Lv0 | Lv1 | Lv2 | Lv3 | off |
+ * |_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|_______|
+ * 63-48 47-39 38-30 29-21 20-12 11-00
+ *
+ * mask page size
+ *
+ * Lv0: FF8000000000 --
+ * Lv1: 7FC0000000 1G
+ * Lv2: 3FE00000 2M
+ * Lv3: 1FF000 4K
+ * off: FFF
+ */
switch (level) {
default:
case 0:
--
2.39.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-21 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-21 17:41 [PATCH 0/4] ARM: mmu: ensure PTE is written at once Ahmad Fatoum
2025-05-21 17:41 ` [PATCH 1/4] arch: sync READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE with Linux Ahmad Fatoum
2025-05-21 17:41 ` Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2025-05-21 17:41 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM: mmu: ensure PTE is written at once Ahmad Fatoum
2025-05-21 17:41 ` [PATCH 4/4] WIP: break before make and don't invalidate uncached regions being remapped Ahmad Fatoum
2025-05-26 13:51 ` (subset) [PATCH 0/4] ARM: mmu: ensure PTE is written at once Sascha Hauer
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