ARM: 9480/1: entry: expand comment in __switch_tografted

As per discussion between the developers in the mail thread
linked, expand the comment in __switch_to so that readers
of the code understand what is going on.

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/devmem_is_allowed.c b/lib/devmem_is_allowed.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9c060c69f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/devmem_is_allowed.c
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ * A generic version of devmem_is_allowed.
+ *
+ * Based on arch/arm64/mm/mmap.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2020 Google, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 ARM Ltd.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/ioport.h>
+#include <linux/io.h>
+
+/*
+ * devmem_is_allowed() checks to see if /dev/mem access to a certain address
+ * is valid. The argument is a physical page number.  We mimic x86 here by
+ * disallowing access to system RAM as well as device-exclusive MMIO regions.
+ * This effectively disable read()/write() on /dev/mem.
+ */
+int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+	if (iomem_is_exclusive(PFN_PHYS(pfn)))
+		return 0;
+	if (!page_is_ram(pfn))
+		return 1;
+	return 0;
+}