[PATCH v3 0/5] Split RX and RW regions for separate pmp entries

[Anup Patel]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 8:48 PM Himanshu Chauhan
<hchauhan at ventanamicro.com> wrote:
>
> This is second installment of the patch series sent earlier with
> the subject:  Split region permissions into M-mode and SU-mode. The
> version 2 was recently posted, for which below is the link:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/opensbi/2023-January/004127.html
>
> This patch series splits the RX (text and read-only data) and RW data regions
> so that each can have its independent pmp entries with correct permissions.
> The linker script provides a new symbol _fw_rw_offset that marks the
> beginning of the RW section. It also ensures that the split is a power-of-2
> as required by pmp.
>
> This lays ground work for enforcing the permissions from M-mode.
>
> Changes in v2:
> * Added a check if fw_rw_offset is a power of w
> * Added a check if fw_start and fw_rw_offset are aligned
>
> Changes in v3:
> * Use of local variable to latch the value in fw_rw_offset linker symbol
> * Check that fw_rw_offset is non-zero before power-of-2 check
>
> Himanshu Chauhan (5):
>   firmware: Split RO/RX and RW sections
>   firmware: Move dynsym and reladyn sections to RX section
>   firmware: Add RW section offset in scratch
>   lib: sbi: Print the RW section offset
>   Add two entries:
>
>  firmware/fw_base.S        |  8 ++++++++
>  firmware/fw_base.ldS      | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  include/sbi/sbi_scratch.h | 24 +++++++++++++---------
>  lib/sbi/sbi_domain.c      | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++--
>  lib/sbi/sbi_init.c        |  1 +
>  5 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

Please include Reviewed-by tags in your PATCHs whenever
you send out a new version of your series.

Regards,
Anup

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