[PATCH] arm:lpae: build TTB control register value from scratch in v7_ttb_setup

Hoeun Ryu hoeun.ryu at gmail.com
Fri Aug 4 06:26:31 PDT 2017



2017. 8. 4. 오후 7:04 Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com> 작성:

>> On 04/08/17 07:07, Hoeun Ryu wrote:
>> Hello, Russell King.
>> 
>> The following patch has not merged yet.
>> Do you have a plan to accept and merge this patch ?
> 
> This should probably go through the ARM tree, so please submit it to
> Russell's patch-tracking system here:
> 
> http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/

Thank you for the reply, I'll try it.

> 
> Robin.
> 
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>>> On Mon, 2017-06-12 at 10:47 +0900, Hoeun Ryu wrote:
>>> Reading TTBCR in early boot stage might return the value of the previous
>>> kernel's configuration, especially in case of kexec. For example, if
>>> normal kernel (first kernel) had run on a configuration of PHYS_OFFSET <=
>>> PAGE_OFFSET and crash kernel (second kernel) is running on a configuration
>>> PHYS_OFFSET > PAGE_OFFSET, which can happen because it depends on the
>>> reserved area for crash kernel, reading TTBCR and using the value to OR
>>> other bit fields might be risky because it doesn't have a reset value for
>>> TTBCR.
>>> 
>>> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
>>> Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Hoeun Ryu <hoeun.ryu at gmail.com>
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> 
>>> * add Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
>>> * v1: amended based on
>>>     - "[PATCHv2] arm: LPAE: kexec: clear TTBCR.T1SZ explicitly when
>>>        PHYS_OFFSET > PAGE_OFFSET"
>>>     - https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/5/239
>>> 
>>> arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S | 3 +--
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S
>>> index 5e5720e..7d16bbc 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-3level.S
>>> @@ -129,8 +129,7 @@ ENDPROC(cpu_v7_set_pte_ext)
>>>    .macro    v7_ttb_setup, zero, ttbr0l, ttbr0h, ttbr1, tmp
>>>    ldr    \tmp, =swapper_pg_dir        @ swapper_pg_dir virtual address
>>>    cmp    \ttbr1, \tmp, lsr #12        @ PHYS_OFFSET > PAGE_OFFSET?
>>> -    mrc    p15, 0, \tmp, c2, c0, 2        @ TTB control egister
>>> -    orr    \tmp, \tmp, #TTB_EAE
>>> +    mov    \tmp, #TTB_EAE            @ for TTB control egister
>>>    ALT_SMP(orr    \tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_SMP)
>>>    ALT_UP(orr    \tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_UP)
>>>    ALT_SMP(orr    \tmp, \tmp, #TTB_FLAGS_SMP << 16)
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