[PATCH v2] arm64: mm: fix booting with 52-bit address space

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Thu Jun 30 07:07:23 PDT 2022


Joey reports that booting 52-bit VA capable builds on 52-bit VA capable
CPUs is broken since commit 0d9b1ffefabe ("arm64: mm: make vabits_actual
a build time constant if possible"). This is due to the fact that the
primary CPU reads the vabits_actual variable before it has been
assigned.

The reason for deferring the assignment of vabits_actual was that we try
to perform as few stores to memory as we can with the MMU and caches
off, due to the cache coherency issues it creates.

Since __cpu_setup() [which is where the read of vabits_actual occurs] is
also called on the secondary boot path, we cannot just read the CPU ID
registers directly, given that the size of the VA space is decided by
the capabilities of the primary CPU. So let's read vabits_actual only on
the secondary boot path, and read the CPU ID registers directly on the
primary boot path, by making it a function parameter of __cpu_setup().

Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Fixes: 0d9b1ffefabe ("arm64: mm: make vabits_actual a build time constant if possible")
Reported-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com>
Co-developed-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
This is a follow-up to Joey's v1, after discussing over IRC

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220630110016.31441-1-joey.gouly@arm.com/

 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 10 ++++++++++
 arch/arm64/mm/proc.S     |  5 +++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index cea86b982e6a..ad67386df598 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -107,6 +107,13 @@ SYM_CODE_START(primary_entry)
 	 * On return, the CPU will be ready for the MMU to be turned on and
 	 * the TCR will have been set.
 	 */
+#if VA_BITS > 48
+	mrs_s	x0, SYS_ID_AA64MMFR2_EL1
+	tst	x0, #0xf << ID_AA64MMFR2_LVA_SHIFT
+	mov	x0, #VA_BITS_MIN
+	mov	x1, #VA_BITS
+	csel	x0, x0, x1, eq
+#endif
 	bl	__cpu_setup			// initialise processor
 	b	__primary_switch
 SYM_CODE_END(primary_entry)
@@ -587,6 +594,9 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(secondary_startup)
 	mov	x20, x0				// preserve boot mode
 	bl	switch_to_vhe
 	bl	__cpu_secondary_check52bitva
+#if VA_BITS > 48
+	ldr_l	x0, vabits_actual
+#endif
 	bl	__cpu_setup			// initialise processor
 	adrp	x1, swapper_pg_dir
 	adrp	x2, idmap_pg_dir
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
index 5d6c494070d1..656c78f82a17 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
@@ -397,6 +397,8 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(idmap_kpti_install_ng_mappings)
  *
  *	Initialise the processor for turning the MMU on.
  *
+ * Input:
+ *	x0 - actual number of VA bits (ignored unless VA_BITS > 48)
  * Output:
  *	Return in x0 the value of the SCTLR_EL1 register.
  */
@@ -466,8 +468,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(__cpu_setup)
 	tcr_clear_errata_bits tcr, x9, x5
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_52
-	ldr_l		x9, vabits_actual
-	sub		x9, xzr, x9
+	sub		x9, xzr, x0
 	add		x9, x9, #64
 	tcr_set_t1sz	tcr, x9
 #else
-- 
2.35.1




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