[PATCH v3 2/2] arm64: remove CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED

[Anshuman Khandual]

A small nit:

arm64/Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED

On 12/9/24 12:50, Huang Shijie wrote:
> After patch "arm64: refacotr the rodata=xxx",
> the "rodata=on" becomes the default.
> 
>      ......................................
> 	if (!strcmp(arg, "on")) {
> 		rodata_enabled = rodata_full = true;
> 		return true;
> 	}
>      ......................................
> 
> The rodata_full is always "true" via "rodata=on" and does not
> depend on the config RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED anymore,
> so it can be dropped.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie at os.amperecomputing.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig       | 14 --------------
>  arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index cbfd357f94a6..1c69982302ed 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -1666,20 +1666,6 @@ config MITIGATE_SPECTRE_BRANCH_HISTORY
>  	  When taking an exception from user-space, a sequence of branches
>  	  or a firmware call overwrites the branch history.
>  
> -config RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED
> -	bool "Apply r/o permissions of VM areas also to their linear aliases"
> -	default y
> -	help
> -	  Apply read-only attributes of VM areas to the linear alias of
> -	  the backing pages as well. This prevents code or read-only data
> -	  from being modified (inadvertently or intentionally) via another
> -	  mapping of the same memory page. This additional enhancement can
> -	  be turned off at runtime by passing rodata=[off|on] (and turned on
> -	  with rodata=full if this option is set to 'n')
> -
> -	  This requires the linear region to be mapped down to pages,
> -	  which may adversely affect performance in some cases.
> -
>  config ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN
>  	bool "Emulate Privileged Access Never using TTBR0_EL1 switching"
>  	depends on !KCSAN
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
> index 39fd1f7ff02a..6eef08d8451e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ struct page_change_data {
>  	pgprot_t clear_mask;
>  };
>  
> -bool rodata_full __ro_after_init = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED);
> +bool rodata_full __ro_after_init = true;
>  
>  bool can_set_direct_map(void)
>  {

Otherwise LGTM

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>