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authorMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>2018-01-29 11:59:56 +0000
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2018-02-06 22:53:20 +0000
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arm64: Force KPTI to be disabled on Cavium ThunderX
Cavium ThunderX's erratum 27456 results in a corruption of icache entries that are loaded from memory that is mapped as non-global (i.e. ASID-tagged). As KPTI is based on memory being mapped non-global, let's prevent it from kicking in if this erratum is detected. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> [will: Update comment] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c17
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index cd9f46952db3..0ff8ab79352c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -855,12 +855,23 @@ static int __kpti_forced; /* 0: not forced, >0: forced on, <0: forced off */
static bool unmap_kernel_at_el0(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry,
int __unused)
{
+ char const *str = "command line option";
u64 pfr0 = read_sanitised_ftr_reg(SYS_ID_AA64PFR0_EL1);
- /* Forced on command line? */
+ /*
+ * For reasons that aren't entirely clear, enabling KPTI on Cavium
+ * ThunderX leads to apparent I-cache corruption of kernel text, which
+ * ends as well as you might imagine. Don't even try.
+ */
+ if (cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_27456)) {
+ str = "ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_27456";
+ __kpti_forced = -1;
+ }
+
+ /* Forced? */
if (__kpti_forced) {
- pr_info_once("kernel page table isolation forced %s by command line option\n",
- __kpti_forced > 0 ? "ON" : "OFF");
+ pr_info_once("kernel page table isolation forced %s by %s\n",
+ __kpti_forced > 0 ? "ON" : "OFF", str);
return __kpti_forced > 0;
}