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ioremap() limitations #4

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penberg opened this issue Nov 17, 2017 · 0 comments
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ioremap() limitations #4

penberg opened this issue Nov 17, 2017 · 0 comments

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penberg commented Nov 17, 2017

As detailed in f910abf, the ioremap() function has serious limitations:

  • ioremap() doesn't doseparate virtual memory allocation. Instead, it uses the user-provided I/O memory address as the virtual address, which can cause problems if I/O memory address space overlaps with physical address space, for example.
  • ioremap() does not set any appropriate cache bits for the page table entry, which can cause problems when accessing the I/O memory region (e.g. stale reads or writes not hitting I/O device because of write-back).

Both issues need to be addressed for ioremap() to be robust and work across different devices and platforms.

tapaswenipathak added a commit to tapaswenipathak/manticore that referenced this issue Sep 1, 2019
Fixes ioremap() limitations for virtual memory allocation and appropriate cache bits for page table entry

Fixes penberg#4.
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