[PATCH v6 25/41] arm64: head: Run feature override detection before mapping the kernel

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at google.com
Wed Nov 29 03:16:21 PST 2023


From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>

To permit the feature overrides to be taken into account before the
KASLR init code runs and the kernel mapping is created, move the
detection code to an earlier stage in the boot.

In a subsequent patch, this will be taken advantage of by merging the
preliminary and permanent mappings of the kernel text and data into a
single one that gets created and relocated before start_kernel() is
called.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S        | 17 +++++++++--------
 arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |  4 +---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 2af518161f3a..865ecc1f8255 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -375,9 +375,9 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(create_idmap)
 
 	map_memory x0, x1, x3, x6, x7, x3, IDMAP_PGD_ORDER, x10, x11, x12, x13, x14, EXTRA_SHIFT
 
-	/* Remap BSS and the kernel page tables r/w in the ID map */
+	/* Remap [.init].data, BSS and the kernel page tables r/w in the ID map */
 	adrp	x1, _text
-	adrp	x2, __bss_start
+	adrp	x2, __initdata_begin
 	adrp	x3, _end
 	bic	x4, x2, #SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE - 1
 	mov_q	x5, SWAPPER_RW_MMUFLAGS
@@ -491,9 +491,6 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__primary_switched)
 #if defined(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) || defined(CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS)
 	bl	kasan_early_init
 #endif
-	mov	x0, x20				// pass the full boot status
-	mov	x1, x22				// pass the low FDT mapping
-	bl	__pi_init_feature_override	// Parse cpu feature overrides
 #ifdef CONFIG_UNWIND_PATCH_PAC_INTO_SCS
 	bl	scs_patch_vmlinux
 #endif
@@ -772,12 +769,16 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__primary_switch)
 	bl	__pi_memset
 	dsb	ishst				// Make zero page visible to PTW
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
-	adrp	x23, KERNEL_START
-	and	x23, x23, MIN_KIMG_ALIGN - 1
 	adrp	x1, early_init_stack
 	mov	sp, x1
 	mov	x29, xzr
+	mov	x0, x20				// pass the full boot status
+	mov	x1, x22				// pass the low FDT mapping
+	bl	__pi_init_feature_override	// Parse cpu feature overrides
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
+	adrp	x23, KERNEL_START
+	and	x23, x23, MIN_KIMG_ALIGN - 1
 #ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
 	mov	x0, x22
 	bl	__pi_kaslr_early_init
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 8a3c6aacc355..3afb4223a5e8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -320,10 +320,8 @@ SECTIONS
 	init_pg_end = .;
 	/* end of zero-init region */
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
-	. += SZ_4K;		/* stack for the early relocation code */
+	. += SZ_4K;		/* stack for the early C runtime */
 	early_init_stack = .;
-#endif
 
 	. = ALIGN(SEGMENT_ALIGN);
 	__pecoff_data_size = ABSOLUTE(. - __initdata_begin);
-- 
2.43.0.rc1.413.gea7ed67945-goog




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