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Date:      Thu, 02 May 2013 09:39:57 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Zbyszek Bodek <zbb@semihalf.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: Patches with AXP support and pmap&smp fixes.
Message-ID:  <1367509197.1180.120.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
In-Reply-To: <51828513.9000406@semihalf.com>
References:  <517E8610.5050204@semihalf.com> <1367338875.1180.44.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <51828513.9000406@semihalf.com>

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On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 17:24 +0200, Zbyszek Bodek wrote:
> On 30.04.2013 18:21, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 16:39 +0200, Grzegorz Bernacki wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am going to submit some changes related to Armada XP support and some
> >> general ARM fixes. You can find them at:
> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~gber/armada
> >>
> >> It would be good if someone could review changes in generic ARM code i.e.:
> >> 1)
> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~gber/armada/0004-arm-smp-Fix-AP-processors-initialization-procedure.patch
> >>
> >> This patch fixes race condition in pcpu_init function. pcpu_init
> >> performs operation on signly-linked tail queue and the queue can be
> >> corrupted by secondary cpus initialization.
> >>
> >> 2)
> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~gber/armada/0007-arm-Fix-L2-PTE-access-permissions-management.patch
> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~gber/armada/0008-arm-Fix-page-reference-emulation-on-ARMv6-and-v7.patch
> >>
> >> These are changes which fixes reference simulation and access
> >> permissions in pmap v6.
> >>
> >> It would be great if you could also review armada patches.
> >> We will appreciate all comments and remarks. If there will be no
> >> objections I am going to submit these changes at the beginning of the
> >> next week.
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> greg
> >
> > I've reviewed them, and see no problems.  It might not be a bad idea to
> > paste the protections truth table from the commit message as a comment
> > block in pmap_set_prot(); I had to keep referring to it while convincing
> > myself the changes were right for every path through the routine.
> >
> > -- Ian
> >
> 
> Hello Ian,
> 
> Sure, we will add suggested comment to the code.
> But would it not be better to place it in the pmap.h file
> just before L2_S_PROT_R, L2_S_PROT_U, etc. definitions.
> Please notice that the similar to pmap_set_prot() protections setting 
> sequence is also used in pmap_enter_locked().
> 
> What is your opinion?
> 
> Best regards
> Zbyszek Bodek
> 

Yes, I think it does make more sense to put the comment block near where
the constants are defined.

-- Ian





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