[PATCH v2 18/19] arm64: Document boot requirements for PIE

Joey Gouly joey.gouly at arm.com
Thu Apr 13 04:05:12 PDT 2023


Features PIE and TCR2 introduce new registers, update the trap requirements
for these features.

Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/arm64/booting.rst | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst b/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst
index ffeccdd6bdac..babbf36f0ce2 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst
@@ -379,6 +379,32 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met:
 
     - SMCR_EL2.EZT0 (bit 30) must be initialised to 0b1.
 
+  For CPUs with the Extended Translation Control Register feature (FEAT_TCR2):
+
+  - If EL3 is present:
+
+    - SCR_EL3.TCR2En (bit 43) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+ - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present:
+
+    - HCRX_EL2.TCR2En (bit 14) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+  For CPUs with the Stage 1 Permission Indirection Extension feature (FEAT_S1PIE):
+
+  - If EL3 is present:
+
+    - SCR_EL3.PIEn (bit 45) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+  - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present:
+
+    - HFGRTR_EL2.nPIR_EL1 (bit 58) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+    - HFGWTR_EL2.nPIR_EL1 (bit 58) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+    - HFGRTR_EL2.nPIRE0_EL1 (bit 57) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+    - HFGRWR_EL2.nPIRE0_EL1 (bit 57) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
 The requirements described above for CPU mode, caches, MMUs, architected
 timers, coherency and system registers apply to all CPUs.  All CPUs must
 enter the kernel in the same exception level.  Where the values documented
-- 
2.25.1




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