[PATCH v6 24/26] arm64: Make BP hardening slot counter available
Andrew Jones
drjones at redhat.com
Thu Mar 15 08:05:03 PDT 2018
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 04:50:47PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> We're about to need to allocate hardening slots from other parts
> of the kernel (in order to support ARM64_HARDEN_EL2_VECTORS).
>
> Turn the counter into an atomic_t and make it available to the
> rest of the kernel. Also add BP_HARDEN_EL2_SLOTS as the number of
> slots instead of the hardcoded 4...
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h | 3 +++
> arch/arm64/kernel/bpi.S | 3 ++-
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 9 ++++-----
> 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com>
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