[PATCH v4 2/3] arm64: vmlinux.ld: Add .mmuoff.{text, data} sections

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Wed Aug 17 10:50:25 PDT 2016


Hi James,

On 15 August 2016 at 19:12, James Morse <james.morse at arm.com> wrote:
> Resume from hibernate needs to clean any text executed by the kernel with
> the MMU off to the PoC. Collect these functions together into a new
> .mmuoff.text section. __boot_cpu_mode and secondary_holding_pen_release
> are data that is read or written with the MMU off. Add these to a new
> .mmuoff.data section.
>
> This covers booting of secondary cores and the cpu_suspend() path used
> by cpu-idle and suspend-to-ram.
>
> The bulk of head.S is not included, as the primary boot code is only ever
> executed once, the kernel never needs to ensure it is cleaned to a
> particular point in the cache.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> ---
> Changes since v3:
>  * Pad mmuoff.data section to CWG.
>  * Specified the .mmuoff.data section for secondary_holding_pen_release in C
>
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/sections.h  |  2 ++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/head.S           | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
>  arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S          |  2 ++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c |  3 ++-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S    |  8 ++++++++
>  arch/arm64/mm/proc.S               |  4 ++++
>  6 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sections.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sections.h
> index 237fcdd13445..fb824a71fbb2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sections.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sections.h
> @@ -25,5 +25,7 @@ extern char __hyp_idmap_text_start[], __hyp_idmap_text_end[];
>  extern char __hyp_text_start[], __hyp_text_end[];
>  extern char __idmap_text_start[], __idmap_text_end[];
>  extern char __irqentry_text_start[], __irqentry_text_end[];
> +extern char __mmuoff_data_start[], __mmuoff_data_end[];
> +extern char __mmuoff_text_start[], __mmuoff_text_end[];
>
>  #endif /* __ASM_SECTIONS_H */
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> index b77f58355da1..4230eeeeabf5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> @@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ ENTRY(kimage_vaddr)
>   * Returns either BOOT_CPU_MODE_EL1 or BOOT_CPU_MODE_EL2 in x20 if
>   * booted in EL1 or EL2 respectively.
>   */
> +       .pushsection ".mmuoff.text", "ax"
>  ENTRY(el2_setup)
>         mrs     x0, CurrentEL
>         cmp     x0, #CurrentEL_EL2
> @@ -621,17 +622,31 @@ set_cpu_boot_mode_flag:
>  ENDPROC(set_cpu_boot_mode_flag)
>
>  /*
> + * Values in this section are written with the MMU off, but read with the
> + * MMU on. Writers will invalidate the corresponding address, discarding
> + * a 'Cache Writeback Granule' (CWG) worth of data. Align these variables
> + * to the architectural maximum of 2K.
> + */
> +       .pushsection ".mmuoff.data", "aw"
> +       .align 11
> +/*
>   * We need to find out the CPU boot mode long after boot, so we need to
>   * store it in a writable variable.
>   *
>   * This is not in .bss, because we set it sufficiently early that the boot-time
>   * zeroing of .bss would clobber it.
>   */
> -       .pushsection    .data..cacheline_aligned
> -       .align  L1_CACHE_SHIFT
>  ENTRY(__boot_cpu_mode)
>         .long   BOOT_CPU_MODE_EL2
>         .long   BOOT_CPU_MODE_EL1
> +/*
> + * The booting CPU updates the failed status @__early_cpu_boot_status,
> + * with MMU turned off.
> + */
> +ENTRY(__early_cpu_boot_status)
> +       .long   0
> +
> +       .align 11

How is this supposed to work? Is secondary_holding_pen_release
expected to be covered by this region as well?
Wouldn't it be better to handle this alignment in the linker script?
(if you even need it, but see below)

>         .popsection
>
>         /*
> @@ -687,6 +702,7 @@ __secondary_switched:
>         mov     x29, #0
>         b       secondary_start_kernel
>  ENDPROC(__secondary_switched)
> +       .popsection
>
>  /*
>   * The booting CPU updates the failed status @__early_cpu_boot_status,
> @@ -706,12 +722,6 @@ ENDPROC(__secondary_switched)
>         dc      ivac, \tmp1                     // Invalidate potentially stale cache line
>         .endm
>
> -       .pushsection    .data..cacheline_aligned
> -       .align  L1_CACHE_SHIFT
> -ENTRY(__early_cpu_boot_status)
> -       .long   0
> -       .popsection
> -
>  /*
>   * Enable the MMU.
>   *
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
> index 9a3aec97ac09..e66ce9b7bbde 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
> @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ ENTRY(__cpu_suspend_enter)
>  ENDPROC(__cpu_suspend_enter)
>         .ltorg
>
> +       .pushsection ".mmuoff.text", "ax"
>  ENTRY(cpu_resume)
>         bl      el2_setup               // if in EL2 drop to EL1 cleanly
>         /* enable the MMU early - so we can access sleep_save_stash by va */
> @@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ ENTRY(cpu_resume)
>         adrp    x26, swapper_pg_dir
>         b       __cpu_setup
>  ENDPROC(cpu_resume)
> +       .popsection
>
>  ENTRY(_cpu_resume)
>         mrs     x1, mpidr_el1
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c
> index 18a71bcd26ee..9db2471e1eed 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c
> @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
>  #include <asm/smp_plat.h>
>
>  extern void secondary_holding_pen(void);
> -volatile unsigned long secondary_holding_pen_release = INVALID_HWID;
> +volatile unsigned long __section(".mmuoff.data")
> +secondary_holding_pen_release = INVALID_HWID;
>
>  static phys_addr_t cpu_release_addr[NR_CPUS];
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index 659963d40bb4..bbab3d886516 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ SECTIONS
>                         IRQENTRY_TEXT
>                         SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT
>                         ENTRY_TEXT
> +                       __mmuoff_text_start = .;
> +                       *(.mmuoff.text)
> +                       __mmuoff_text_end = .;
>                         TEXT_TEXT
>                         SCHED_TEXT
>                         LOCK_TEXT
> @@ -186,6 +189,11 @@ SECTIONS
>         _sdata = .;
>         RW_DATA_SECTION(L1_CACHE_BYTES, PAGE_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE)
>         PECOFF_EDATA_PADDING

This padding needs to be at the end, it is intended to make the size
of Image a multiple of 512. Alternatively, you could get rid of it
completely, I guess, if the end of .mmuoff.text is expected to be 2 KB
aligned (but I wonder if you need to)

> +       .mmuoff.data : {

 .mmuoff.data : ALIGN (SZ_2K) {

> +               __mmuoff_data_start = .;
> +               *(.mmuoff.data)

. = ALIGN(SZ_2K);

However, if the invalidation occurs before .bss is cleared (with the
caches on), perhaps there is no need to align the end of this section?
(and there is also no need to round up the part of it that lives in
head.S?)


> +               __mmuoff_data_end = .;
> +       }
>         _edata = .;
>
>         BSS_SECTION(0, 0, 0)
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
> index 5bb61de23201..a709e95d68ff 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
> @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ ENDPROC(cpu_do_suspend)
>   *
>   * x0: Address of context pointer
>   */
> +       .pushsection ".mmuoff.text", "ax"
>  ENTRY(cpu_do_resume)
>         ldp     x2, x3, [x0]
>         ldp     x4, x5, [x0, #16]
> @@ -111,6 +112,7 @@ ENTRY(cpu_do_resume)
>         isb
>         ret
>  ENDPROC(cpu_do_resume)
> +       .popsection
>  #endif
>
>  /*
> @@ -172,6 +174,7 @@ ENDPROC(idmap_cpu_replace_ttbr1)
>   *     Initialise the processor for turning the MMU on.  Return in x0 the
>   *     value of the SCTLR_EL1 register.
>   */
> +       .pushsection ".mmuoff.text", "ax"
>  ENTRY(__cpu_setup)
>         tlbi    vmalle1                         // Invalidate local TLB
>         dsb     nsh
> @@ -257,3 +260,4 @@ ENDPROC(__cpu_setup)
>  crval:
>         .word   0xfcffffff                      // clear
>         .word   0x34d5d91d                      // set
> +       .popsection
> --
> 2.8.0.rc3
>
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