[PATCH 03/13] arm64: head.S: always initialize PSTATE

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Fri Sep 25 12:07:12 EDT 2020


As with SCTLR_ELx and other control registers, some PSTATE bits are
UNKNOWN out-of-reset, and we may not be able to rely on hardware of
firmware to initialize them to our liking prior to entry to the kernel,
e.g. in the primary/secondary boot paths and return from idle/suspend.

It would be more robust (and easier to reason about) if we consistently
initialized PSTATE to a default value, as we do with control registers.
This will ensure that the kernel is not adversely affected by bits it is
not aware of, e.g. when support for a feature such as PAN/UAO is
disabled.

This patch ensures that PSTATE is consistently initialized at boot time
via an ERET. This is not intended to relax the existing requirements
(e.g. DAIF bits must still be set prior to entering the kernel). For
features detected dynamically (which may require system-wide support),
it is still necessary to subsequently modify PSTATE.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h |  5 +++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S        | 27 +++++++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
index 966ed30ed5f7b..366075f228eb3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@
 #define CurrentEL_EL1		(1 << 2)
 #define CurrentEL_EL2		(2 << 2)
 
+#define INIT_PSTATE_EL1 \
+	(PSR_D_BIT | PSR_A_BIT | PSR_I_BIT | PSR_F_BIT | PSR_MODE_EL1h)
+#define INIT_PSTATE_EL2 \
+	(PSR_D_BIT | PSR_A_BIT | PSR_I_BIT | PSR_F_BIT | PSR_MODE_EL2h)
+
 /*
  * PMR values used to mask/unmask interrupts.
  *
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 9bb07be45249a..b8ee9a62c9b61 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -494,17 +494,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kimage_vaddr)
  * booted in EL1 or EL2 respectively.
  */
 SYM_FUNC_START(init_kernel_el)
-	msr	SPsel, #1			// We want to use SP_EL{1,2}
 	mrs	x0, CurrentEL
 	cmp	x0, #CurrentEL_EL2
-	b.eq	1f
+	b.eq	init_el2
+
+SYM_INNER_LABEL(init_el1, SYM_L_LOCAL)
 	mov_q	x0, INIT_SCTLR_EL1_MMU_OFF
 	msr	sctlr_el1, x0
-	mov	w0, #BOOT_CPU_MODE_EL1		// This cpu booted in EL1
 	isb
-	ret
+	mov_q	x0, INIT_PSTATE_EL1
+	msr	spsr_el1, x0
+	msr	elr_el1, lr
+	mov	w0, #BOOT_CPU_MODE_EL1
+	eret
 
-1:	mov_q	x0, INIT_SCTLR_EL2_MMU_OFF
+SYM_INNER_LABEL(init_el2, SYM_L_LOCAL)
+	mov_q	x0, INIT_SCTLR_EL2_MMU_OFF
 	msr	sctlr_el2, x0
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_VHE
@@ -613,9 +618,12 @@ set_hcr:
 
 	cbz	x2, install_el2_stub
 
-	mov	w0, #BOOT_CPU_MODE_EL2		// This CPU booted in EL2
 	isb
-	ret
+	mov_q	x0, INIT_PSTATE_EL2
+	msr	spsr_el2, x0
+	msr	elr_el2, lr
+	mov	w0, #BOOT_CPU_MODE_EL2
+	eret
 
 SYM_INNER_LABEL(install_el2_stub, SYM_L_LOCAL)
 	/*
@@ -648,11 +656,10 @@ SYM_INNER_LABEL(install_el2_stub, SYM_L_LOCAL)
 	msr	vbar_el2, x0
 
 	/* spsr */
-	mov	x0, #(PSR_F_BIT | PSR_I_BIT | PSR_A_BIT | PSR_D_BIT |\
-		      PSR_MODE_EL1h)
+	mov	x0, #INIT_PSTATE_EL1
 	msr	spsr_el2, x0
 	msr	elr_el2, lr
-	mov	w0, #BOOT_CPU_MODE_EL2		// This CPU booted in EL2
+	mov	w0, #BOOT_CPU_MODE_EL2
 	eret
 SYM_FUNC_END(init_kernel_el)
 
-- 
2.11.0




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