Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Fix vma page prot flags in opal-prd driver

2015-06-25 Thread Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
* Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [2015-06-25 11:45:46]: [snip] > Hi Ben, > > remap_pfn_range() is the correct method to map the firmware pages > because we will not have struct page associated with this RAM area. > > We do a memblock_reserve() in early boot and take out this memory from > kernel and

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Fix vma page prot flags in opal-prd driver

2015-06-24 Thread Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
* Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [2015-06-21 23:56:16]: > opal-prd driver will mmap() firmware code/data area as private > mapping to prd user space daemon. Write to this page will > trigger COW faults. The new COW pages are normal kernel RAM > pages accounted by the kernel and are not special. > > v