[ARM] mm: add page allocator for modifying cache attributes

ARM CPUs with speculative prefetching have undefined behaviors when the
same physical page is mapped to two different virtual addresses with
conflicting cache attributes.

since many recent systems include IOMMU functionality (i.e., remapping
of discontiguous physical pages into a virtually-contiguous address
range for I/O devices), it is desirable to support allocating any
available OS memory for use by the I/O devices. however, since many
systems do not support cache coherency between the CPU and DMA devices,
these devices are left with using DMA-coherent allocations from the OS
(which severely limits the benefit of an IOMMU) or performing cache
maintenance (which can be a severe performance loss, particularly on
systems with outer caches, compared to using DMA-coherent memory).

this change adds an API for allocating pages from the OS with specific
cache maintenance properties and ensures that the kernel's mapping
of the page reflects the desired cache attributes, in line with the
ARMv7 architectural requirements

Change-Id: If0bd3cfe339b9a9b10fd6d45a748cd5e65931cf0
Signed-off-by: Gary King <gking@nvidia.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Makefile b/arch/arm/mm/Makefile
index bca7e61928c7..2766c8b1a30c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Makefile
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ ifneq ($(CONFIG_MMU),y)
 obj-y				+= nommu.o
 endif
 
+obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_ATTRIB_ALLOCATOR) += attrib_alloc.o
+
 obj-$(CONFIG_MODULES)		+= proc-syms.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP)	+= alignment.o