[bootwrapper PATCH v3 08/15] aarch64: initialize SCTLR_ELx for the boot-wrapper

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Wed Jan 26 08:35:53 PST 2022


On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:00:50 +0000
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:

Hi,

> The SCTLR_ELx registers contain fields which are UNKNOWN or
> IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED out of reset. This includes SCTLR_ELx.EE, which
> defines the endianness of memory accesses (e.g. reads from literal
> pools). Due to this, portions of boot-wrapper code are not guaranteed
> to work correctly.
> 
> Rework the startup code to explicitly initialize SCTLR_ELx for the
> exception level the boot-wrapper was entered at. When entered at EL2
> it's necessary to first initialise HCR_EL2.E2H as this affects the RESx
> behaviour of bits in SCTLR_EL2, and also aliases SCTLR_EL1 to SCTLR_EL2,
> which would break the initialization performed in jump_kernel.
> 
> As we plan to eventually support the highest implemented EL being any of
> EL3/EL2/EL1, code is added to handle all of these exception levels, even
> though we do not currently support starting at EL1.
> 
> We'll initialize other registers in subsequent patches.

While I still would like to have seen bit 7 cleared and bit 5 set in
SCTLR_EL1, that is admittedly debatable, and any EL1 user should set that
for their EL0 themselves. The rest is fine, so:

> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>

Cheers,
Andre

> ---
>  arch/aarch64/boot.S            | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  arch/aarch64/include/asm/cpu.h | 30 +++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/aarch64/boot.S b/arch/aarch64/boot.S
> index d682ba5..204c199 100644
> --- a/arch/aarch64/boot.S
> +++ b/arch/aarch64/boot.S
> @@ -26,26 +26,26 @@
>  	 *   PSCI is not supported when entered in this exception level.
>  	 */
>  ASM_FUNC(_start)
> -	cpuid	x0, x1
> -	bl	find_logical_id
> -	cmp	x0, #MPIDR_INVALID
> -	beq	err_invalid_id
> -	bl	setup_stack
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * EL3 initialisation
> -	 */
>  	mrs	x0, CurrentEL
>  	cmp	x0, #CURRENTEL_EL3
> -	b.eq	1f
> +	b.eq	reset_at_el3
> +	cmp	x0, #CURRENTEL_EL2
> +	b.eq	reset_at_el2
> +	cmp	x0, #CURRENTEL_EL1
> +	b.eq	reset_at_el1
>  
> -	mov	w0, #1
> -	ldr	x1, =flag_no_el3
> -	str	w0, [x1]
> +	/* Booting at EL0 is not supported */
> +	b	.
>  
> -	b	start_no_el3
> +	/*
> +	 * EL3 initialisation
> +	 */
> +reset_at_el3:
> +	mov_64	x0, SCTLR_EL3_RESET
> +	msr	sctlr_el3, x0
> +	isb
>  
> -1:	mov	x0, #0x30			// RES1
> +	mov	x0, #0x30			// RES1
>  	orr	x0, x0, #(1 << 0)		// Non-secure EL1
>  	orr	x0, x0, #(1 << 8)		// HVC enable
>  
> @@ -143,10 +143,54 @@ ASM_FUNC(_start)
>  	ldr	x0, =COUNTER_FREQ
>  	msr	cntfrq_el0, x0
>  
> +	cpuid	x0, x1
> +	bl	find_logical_id
> +	cmp	x0, #MPIDR_INVALID
> +	b.eq	err_invalid_id
> +	bl	setup_stack
> +
>  	bl	gic_secure_init
>  
>  	b	start_el3
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * EL2 initialization
> +	 */
> +reset_at_el2:
> +	// Ensure E2H is not in use
> +	mov_64	x0, HCR_EL2_RESET
> +	msr	hcr_el2, x0
> +	isb
> +
> +	mov_64	x0, SCTLR_EL2_RESET
> +	msr	sctlr_el2, x0
> +	isb
> +
> +	b	reset_no_el3
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * EL1 initialization
> +	 */
> +reset_at_el1:
> +	mov_64	x0, SCTLR_EL1_RESET
> +	msr	sctlr_el1, x0
> +	isb
> +
> +	b	reset_no_el3
> +
> +reset_no_el3:
> +	cpuid	x0, x1
> +	bl	find_logical_id
> +	cmp	x0, #MPIDR_INVALID
> +	b.eq	err_invalid_id
> +	bl	setup_stack
> +
> +	mov	w0, #1
> +	ldr	x1, =flag_no_el3
> +	str	w0, [x1]
> +
> +	b	start_no_el3
> +
>  err_invalid_id:
>  	b	.
>  
> diff --git a/arch/aarch64/include/asm/cpu.h b/arch/aarch64/include/asm/cpu.h
> index 341a545..0a4085b 100644
> --- a/arch/aarch64/include/asm/cpu.h
> +++ b/arch/aarch64/include/asm/cpu.h
> @@ -14,6 +14,35 @@
>  #define MPIDR_ID_BITS		0xff00ffffff
>  
>  #define CURRENTEL_EL3		(3 << 2)
> +#define CURRENTEL_EL2		(2 << 2)
> +#define CURRENTEL_EL1		(1 << 2)
> +
> +/*
> + * RES1 bit definitions definitions as of ARM DDI 0487G.b
> + *
> + * These includes bits which are RES1 in some configurations.
> + */
> +#define SCTLR_EL3_RES1							\
> +	(BIT(29) | BIT(28) | BIT(23) | BIT(22) | BIT(18) | BIT(16) |	\
> +	 BIT(11) | BIT(5) | BIT(4))
> +
> +#define SCTLR_EL2_RES1							\
> +	(BIT(29) | BIT(28) | BIT(23) | BIT(22) | BIT(20) | BIT(18) |	\
> +	 BIT(16) | BIT(11) | BIT(5) | BIT(4))
> +
> +#define SCTLR_EL1_RES1							\
> +	(BIT(29) | BIT(28) | BIT(23) | BIT(22) | BIT(20) | BIT(11) |	\
> +	 BIT(8) | BIT(7) | BIT(4))
> +
> +#define HCR_EL2_RES1		(BIT(1))
> +
> +/*
> + * Initial register values required for the boot-wrapper to run out-of-reset.
> + */
> +#define SCTLR_EL3_RESET		SCTLR_EL3_RES1
> +#define SCTLR_EL2_RESET		SCTLR_EL2_RES1
> +#define SCTLR_EL1_RESET		SCTLR_EL1_RES1
> +#define HCR_EL2_RESET		HCR_EL2_RES1
>  
>  #define ID_AA64PFR0_EL1_GIC	BITS(27, 24)
>  
> @@ -43,7 +72,6 @@
>  #define ZCR_EL3_LEN_MAX		0xf
>  
>  #define SCTLR_EL1_CP15BEN	(1 << 5)
> -#define SCTLR_EL1_RES1		(3 << 28 | 3 << 22 | 1 << 11)
>  
>  #ifdef KERNEL_32
>  /*




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