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2013-03-02metag: Memory handlingJames Hogan1-0/+68
Meta has instructions for accessing: - bytes - GETB (1 byte) - words - GETW (2 bytes) - doublewords - GETD (4 bytes) - longwords - GETL (8 bytes) All accesses must be aligned. Unaligned accesses can be detected and made to fault on Meta2, however it isn't possible to fix up unaligned writes so we don't bother fixing up reads either. This patch adds metag memory handling code including: - I/O memory (io.h, ioremap.c): Actually any virtual memory can be accessed with these helpers. A part of the non-MMUable address space is used for memory mapped I/O. The ioremap() function is implemented one to one for non-MMUable addresses. - User memory (uaccess.h, usercopy.c): User memory is directly accessible from privileged code. - Kernel memory (maccess.c): probe_kernel_write() needs to be overwridden to use the I/O functions when doing a simple aligned write to non-writecombined memory, otherwise the write may be split by the generic version. Note that due to the fact that a portion of the virtual address space is non-MMUable, and therefore always maps directly to the physical address space, metag specific I/O functions are made available (metag_in32, metag_out32 etc). These cast the address argument to a pointer so that they can be used with raw physical addresses. These accessors are only to be used for accessing fixed core Meta architecture registers in the non-MMU region, and not for any SoC/peripheral registers. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>