[PATCH] RISC-V-fixes: relocate DTB if it's outside memory region

Conor Dooley mail at conchuod.ie
Thu Apr 28 14:58:19 PDT 2022


On 28/04/2022 22:48, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:37:29 PDT (-0700), Conor.Dooley at microchip.com wrote:
>>
>> On 22/03/2022 13:28, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
>>> In case the DTB provided by the bootloader/BootROM is before the kernel
>>> image or outside /memory, we won't be able to access it through the
>>> linear mapping, and get a segfault on setup_arch(). Currently OpenSBI
>>> relocates DTB but that's not always the case (e.g. if FW_JUMP_FDT_ADDR
>>> is not specified), and it's also not the most portable approach since
>>> the default FW_JUMP_FDT_ADDR of the generic platform relocates the DTB
>>> at a specific offset that may not be available. To avoid this situation
>>> copy DTB so that it's visible through the linear mapping.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mick at ics.forth.gr>
>>
>> Albeit in a backport, I tested this on a PolarFire SoC based board.
>> So I guess, Tested-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
> 
> My scripts don't pick these up unless they're on their own line, not sure if that's too conservative but it's on purpose.  I just sort of stumbled into this one so it's in.

Uhh, I checked and b4 doesn't pick it up either. I'm not overly
concerned about getting "credit" for testing it, more interested
in pointing out that it does solve a real issue that I have run
into in case you were looking for incentive to apply it :)
I realised immediately after sending that it was likely an invalid
tag, but figured it'd serve that purpose either way.

Thanks,
Conor.

> 
>>
>> And a lot cleaner than using create_pgd_mapping in setup_vm_final to do it :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Conor.
>>
>>> ---
>>>   arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
>>>   1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
>>> index 0d588032d..697a9aed4 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
>>> @@ -206,8 +206,25 @@ static void __init setup_bootmem(void)
>>>        * early_init_fdt_reserve_self() since __pa() does
>>>        * not work for DTB pointers that are fixmap addresses
>>>        */
>>> -    if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB))
>>> -        memblock_reserve(dtb_early_pa, fdt_totalsize(dtb_early_va));
>>> +    if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB)) {
>>> +        /*
>>> +         * In case the DTB is not located in a memory region we won't
>>> +         * be able to locate it later on via the linear mapping and
>>> +         * get a segfault when accessing it via __va(dtb_early_pa).
>>> +         * To avoid this situation copy DTB to a memory region.
>>> +         * Note that memblock_phys_alloc will also reserve DTB region.
>>> +         */
>>> +        if (!memblock_is_memory(dtb_early_pa)) {
>>> +            size_t fdt_size = fdt_totalsize(dtb_early_va);
>>> +            phys_addr_t new_dtb_early_pa = memblock_phys_alloc(fdt_size, PAGE_SIZE);
>>> +            void *new_dtb_early_va = early_memremap(new_dtb_early_pa, fdt_size);
>>> +
>>> +            memcpy(new_dtb_early_va, dtb_early_va, fdt_size);
>>> +            early_memunmap(new_dtb_early_va, fdt_size);
>>> +            _dtb_early_pa = new_dtb_early_pa;
>>> +        } else
>>> +            memblock_reserve(dtb_early_pa, fdt_totalsize(dtb_early_va));
>>> +    }
>>>         early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();
>>>       dma_contiguous_reserve(dma32_phys_limit);



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