[PATCH] ARM: decompressor: Fix mmu mapping for non-DRAM address space.
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue May 8 08:41:16 EDT 2012
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 02:42:29PM +0100, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> From: R Sricharan <r.sricharan at ti.com>
>
> ARM decompressor code setups entire 4GB address space pages.
> Out of the 4GB, about 256MB are setup with normal memory attributes
> for needed DRAM and the rest of the address space as Strongly ordered.
>
> But since all the sections are mapped in DOMAIN0(Manager), processor
> like Cortex-A15, can speculatively prefetch from non-DRAM read sensitive
> areas even in the presence of XN(Non-executable). This is because XN
> attribute is ignored when domain is Manager.
>
> This can lead to accesses to non-accessible address regions leading
> to various interconnect violations. The issue is observed on OMAP5.
>
> This patch tries to fix the issue by ensuring that non-DRAM region
> is marked as a client domain so that XN attribute is effective.
>
> A better alternative is to not map un-used regions but since the
> decompressor code is generic, there might be many exceptions
> for the devices used like debug console etc.
>
> Signed-off-by: R Sricharan <r.sricharan at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 7 ++++++-
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> index dc7e8ce..4dc799b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ __setup_mmu: sub r3, r4, #16384 @ Page directory size
> mov r9, r0, lsr #18
> mov r9, r9, lsl #18 @ start of RAM
> add r10, r9, #0x10000000 @ a reasonable RAM size
> - mov r1, #0x12
> + mov r1, #0x32 @ set domain1, XN, valid
> orr r1, r1, #3 << 10
> add r2, r3, #16384
> 1: cmp r1, r9 @ if virt > start of RAM
> @@ -587,8 +587,10 @@ __setup_mmu: sub r3, r4, #16384 @ Page directory size
> #else
> orrhs r1, r1, #0x0c @ set cacheable, bufferable
> #endif
> + bichs r1, r1, #0x20 @ set domain0 for DRAM
> cmp r1, r10 @ if virt > end of RAM
> bichs r1, r1, #0x0c @ clear cacheable, bufferable
> + orrhs r1, r1, #0x20 @ set domain1
I would leave the same domain (0, set as client) and rather change the
XN and cacheability bits once we finished with the DRAM. I think it's
cleaner assuming we have two domains and the manager one overrides the
XN bit.
> str r1, [r0], #4 @ 1:1 mapping
> add r1, r1, #1048576
> teq r0, r2
> @@ -658,6 +660,9 @@ __armv7_mmu_cache_on:
> movne r1, #-1
> mcrne p15, 0, r3, c2, c0, 0 @ load page table pointer
> mcrne p15, 0, r1, c3, c0, 0 @ load domain access control
> + bic r1, r1, #0xc
> + orr r1, r1, #0x4
> + mcr p15, 0, r1, c3, c0, 0 @ set domain1 as cliento
So here just set domain 0 as client.
--
Catalin
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