[PATCH 6/7] ARM: MMU64: map memory for barebox proper pagewise

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Fri Jun 13 03:29:46 PDT 2025


Hi,

On 6/13/25 09:58, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Map the remainder of the memory explicitly with two level page tables. This is
> the place where barebox proper ends at. In barebox proper we'll remap the code
> segments readonly/executable and the ro segments readonly/execute never. For this
> we need the memory being mapped pagewise. We can't do the split up from section
> wise mapping to pagewise mapping later because that would require us to do
> a break-before-make sequence which we can't do when barebox proper is running
> at the location being remapped.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c b/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c
> index 440258fa767735a4537abd71030a5540813fc443..dc81c1da6add38b59b44a9a4e247ab51ebc2692e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
>  #include <init.h>
>  #include <mmu.h>
>  #include <errno.h>
> +#include <range.h>
>  #include <zero_page.h>
>  #include <linux/sizes.h>
>  #include <asm/memory.h>
> @@ -172,6 +173,56 @@ static void create_sections(uint64_t virt, uint64_t phys, uint64_t size,
>  	tlb_invalidate();
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * like create_sections(), but this one creates pages instead of sections
> + */
> +static void create_pages(uint64_t phys, uint64_t size, uint64_t attr)

Why not add a parameter to create_sections? Code looks nearly
equivalent, except that we would tweak the inner most condition.

Looks good otherwise:

Reviewed-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>

Cheers,
Ahmad


> +{
> +	uint64_t virt = phys;
> +	uint64_t *ttb = get_ttb();
> +	uint64_t block_size;
> +	uint64_t block_shift;
> +	uint64_t *pte;
> +	uint64_t idx;
> +	uint64_t addr;
> +	uint64_t *table;
> +	uint64_t type;
> +	int level;
> +
> +	addr = virt;
> +
> +	attr &= ~PTE_TYPE_MASK;
> +
> +	size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
> +
> +	while (size) {
> +		table = ttb;
> +		for (level = 0; level < 4; level++) {
> +			block_shift = level2shift(level);
> +			idx = (addr & level2mask(level)) >> block_shift;
> +			block_size = (1ULL << block_shift);
> +
> +			pte = table + idx;
> +
> +			if (level == 3) {
> +				type = PTE_TYPE_PAGE;
> +				*pte = phys | attr | type;
> +				addr += block_size;
> +				phys += block_size;
> +				size -= block_size;
> +				break;
> +			} else {
> +				split_block(pte, level);
> +			}
> +
> +			table = get_level_table(pte);
> +		}
> +
> +	}
> +
> +	tlb_invalidate();
> +}
> +
>  static size_t granule_size(int level)
>  {
>  	switch (level) {
> @@ -410,6 +461,7 @@ void mmu_early_enable(unsigned long membase, unsigned long memsize, unsigned lon
>  {
>  	int el;
>  	u64 optee_membase;
> +	unsigned long barebox_size;
>  	unsigned long ttb = arm_mem_ttb(membase + memsize);
>  
>  	if (get_cr() & CR_M)
> @@ -432,12 +484,24 @@ void mmu_early_enable(unsigned long membase, unsigned long memsize, unsigned lon
>  
>  	early_remap_range(membase, memsize, MAP_CACHED);
>  
> -	if (optee_get_membase(&optee_membase))
> +	if (optee_get_membase(&optee_membase)) {
>                  optee_membase = membase + memsize - OPTEE_SIZE;
>  
> +		barebox_size = optee_membase - barebox_start;
> +
> +		create_pages(optee_membase - barebox_size, barebox_size,
> +			     get_pte_attrs(ARCH_MAP_CACHED_RWX));
> +	} else {
> +		barebox_size = membase + memsize - barebox_start;
> +
> +		create_pages(membase + memsize - barebox_size, barebox_size,
> +			     get_pte_attrs(ARCH_MAP_CACHED_RWX));
> +	}
> +
>  	early_remap_range(optee_membase, OPTEE_SIZE, MAP_FAULT);
>  
> -	early_remap_range(PAGE_ALIGN_DOWN((uintptr_t)_stext), PAGE_ALIGN(_etext - _stext), MAP_CACHED);
> +	early_remap_range(PAGE_ALIGN_DOWN((uintptr_t)_stext), PAGE_ALIGN(_etext - _stext),
> +			  MAP_CACHED);
>  
>  	mmu_enable();
>  }
> 

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