[PATCH 1/4] ARM: catch pending imprecise abort on unmask
Lucas Stach
l.stach at pengutronix.de
Wed Oct 14 07:48:30 PDT 2015
Install a non-faulting handler just before unmasking imprecise aborts
and switch back to the regular one after unmasking is done.
This catches any pending imprecise abort that the firmware/bootloader
may have left behind that would normally crash the kernel at that point.
As there are apparently a lot of bootlaoders out there that do such a
thing it makes sense to handle it in the common startup code.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de>
---
arch/arm/mm/fault.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
arch/arm/mm/fault.h | 2 ++
arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
index 0d629b8f973f..519f694ec9db 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
@@ -538,6 +538,21 @@ hook_fault_code(int nr, int (*fn)(unsigned long, unsigned int, struct pt_regs *)
fsr_info[nr].name = name;
}
+void * __init
+swap_fault_function(int nr,
+ int (*fn)(unsigned long, unsigned int, struct pt_regs *))
+{
+ void *old_fn;
+
+ if (nr < 0 || nr >= ARRAY_SIZE(fsr_info))
+ BUG();
+
+ old_fn = fsr_info[nr].fn;
+ fsr_info[nr].fn = fn;
+
+ return old_fn;
+}
+
/*
* Dispatch a data abort to the relevant handler.
*/
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/fault.h b/arch/arm/mm/fault.h
index cf08bdfbe0d6..2deb7494d84f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/fault.h
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/fault.h
@@ -24,5 +24,7 @@ static inline int fsr_fs(unsigned int fsr)
void do_bad_area(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr, struct pt_regs *regs);
unsigned long search_exception_table(unsigned long addr);
+void *swap_fault_function(int nr,
+ int (*fn)(unsigned long, unsigned int, struct pt_regs *));
#endif /* __ARCH_ARM_FAULT_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
index f65a6f344b6d..78c420776f4c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include <asm/mach/pci.h>
#include <asm/fixmap.h>
+#include "fault.h"
#include "mm.h"
#include "tcm.h"
@@ -1259,6 +1260,20 @@ void __init arm_mm_memblock_reserve(void)
}
/*
+ * Abort handler to be used only during unmasking of imprecise aborts. This
+ * makes sure that the machine will not die if the firmware/bootloader left an
+ * imprecise abort pending for us to trip over.
+ */
+static int __init early_abort_handler(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr,
+ struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ pr_warn("Hit pending imprecise external abort during first unmask, "
+ "this is most likely caused by a firmware/bootloader bug.\n");
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
* Set up the device mappings. Since we clear out the page tables for all
* mappings above VMALLOC_START, except early fixmap, we might remove debug
* device mappings. This means earlycon can be used to debug this function
@@ -1269,7 +1284,7 @@ static void __init devicemaps_init(const struct machine_desc *mdesc)
{
struct map_desc map;
unsigned long addr;
- void *vectors;
+ void *vectors, *saved_fault_fn;
/*
* Allocate the vector page early.
@@ -1365,7 +1380,9 @@ static void __init devicemaps_init(const struct machine_desc *mdesc)
flush_cache_all();
/* Enable asynchronous aborts */
+ saved_fault_fn = swap_fault_function(22, early_abort_handler);
local_abt_enable();
+ swap_fault_function(22, saved_fault_fn);
}
static void __init kmap_init(void)
--
2.6.1
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