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| author | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2014-02-07 19:12:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2014-02-10 11:48:13 +0000 |
| commit | b6ccb9803e90c16b212cf4ed62913a7591e79a39 (patch) | |
| tree | e077cbf203e4b7fbaaa0e0b4807b01c0f028405a /arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | |
| parent | afdd3bba3ca18e6b0515b2e60101a932f5fa9afa (diff) | |
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ARM: 7954/1: mm: remove remaining domain support from ARMv6
CPU_32v6 currently selects CPU_USE_DOMAINS if CPU_V6 and MMU. This is
because ARM 1136 r0pX CPUs lack the v6k extensions, and therefore do
not have hardware thread registers. The lack of these registers requires
the kernel to update the vectors page at each context switch in order to
write a new TLS pointer. This write must be done via the userspace
mapping, since aliasing caches can lead to expensive flushing when using
kmap. Finally, this requires the vectors page to be mapped r/w for
kernel and r/o for user, which has implications for things like put_user
which must trigger CoW appropriately when targetting user pages.
The upshot of all this is that a v6/v7 kernel makes use of domains to
segregate kernel and user memory accesses. This has the nasty
side-effect of making device mappings executable, which has been
observed to cause subtle bugs on recent cores (e.g. Cortex-A15
performing a speculative instruction fetch from the GIC and acking an
interrupt in the process).
This patch solves this problem by removing the remaining domain support
from ARMv6. A new memory type is added specifically for the vectors page
which allows that page (and only that page) to be mapped as user r/o,
kernel r/w. All other user r/o pages are mapped also as kernel r/o.
Patch co-developed with Russell King.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/mm/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig index 1f8fed94c2a4..ca8ecdee47d8 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig @@ -446,7 +446,6 @@ config CPU_32v5 config CPU_32v6 bool - select CPU_USE_DOMAINS if CPU_V6 && MMU select TLS_REG_EMUL if !CPU_32v6K && !MMU config CPU_32v6K @@ -671,7 +670,7 @@ config ARM_VIRT_EXT config SWP_EMULATE bool "Emulate SWP/SWPB instructions" - depends on !CPU_USE_DOMAINS && CPU_V7 + depends on CPU_V7 default y if SMP select HAVE_PROC_CPU if PROC_FS help |