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-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mm/mmu.c51
1 files changed, 46 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
index ab14b79b03f0..8348ed6b2efe 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1406,8 +1406,8 @@ void __init early_paging_init(const struct machine_desc *mdesc,
return;
/* remap kernel code and data */
- map_start = init_mm.start_code;
- map_end = init_mm.brk;
+ map_start = init_mm.start_code & PMD_MASK;
+ map_end = ALIGN(init_mm.brk, PMD_SIZE);
/* get a handle on things... */
pgd0 = pgd_offset_k(0);
@@ -1434,23 +1434,64 @@ void __init early_paging_init(const struct machine_desc *mdesc,
dsb(ishst);
isb();
- /* remap level 1 table */
+ /*
+ * FIXME: This code is not architecturally compliant: we modify
+ * the mappings in-place, indeed while they are in use by this
+ * very same code. This may lead to unpredictable behaviour of
+ * the CPU.
+ *
+ * Even modifying the mappings in a separate page table does
+ * not resolve this.
+ *
+ * The architecture strongly recommends that when a mapping is
+ * changed, that it is changed by first going via an invalid
+ * mapping and back to the new mapping. This is to ensure that
+ * no TLB conflicts (caused by the TLB having more than one TLB
+ * entry match a translation) can occur. However, doing that
+ * here will result in unmapping the code we are running.
+ */
+ pr_warn("WARNING: unsafe modification of in-place page tables - tainting kernel\n");
+ add_taint(TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
+
+ /*
+ * Remap level 1 table. This changes the physical addresses
+ * used to refer to the level 2 page tables to the high
+ * physical address alias, leaving everything else the same.
+ */
for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PGD; pud0++, i++) {
set_pud(pud0,
__pud(__pa(pmd0) | PMD_TYPE_TABLE | L_PGD_SWAPPER));
pmd0 += PTRS_PER_PMD;
}
- /* remap pmds for kernel mapping */
- phys = __pa(map_start) & PMD_MASK;
+ /*
+ * Remap the level 2 table, pointing the mappings at the high
+ * physical address alias of these pages.
+ */
+ phys = __pa(map_start);
do {
*pmdk++ = __pmd(phys | pmdprot);
phys += PMD_SIZE;
} while (phys < map_end);
+ /*
+ * Ensure that the above updates are flushed out of the cache.
+ * This is not strictly correct; on a system where the caches
+ * are coherent with each other, but the MMU page table walks
+ * may not be coherent, flush_cache_all() may be a no-op, and
+ * this will fail.
+ */
flush_cache_all();
+
+ /*
+ * Re-write the TTBR values to point them at the high physical
+ * alias of the page tables. We expect __va() will work on
+ * cpu_get_pgd(), which returns the value of TTBR0.
+ */
cpu_switch_mm(pgd0, &init_mm);
cpu_set_ttbr(1, __pa(pgd0) + TTBR1_OFFSET);
+
+ /* Finally flush any stale TLB values. */
local_flush_bp_all();
local_flush_tlb_all();
}