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| author | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2010-09-13 16:03:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2010-11-04 15:44:31 +0000 |
| commit | 247055aa21ffef1c49dd64710d5e94c2aee19b58 (patch) | |
| tree | e9e026b96597d080de4c16bb88c17b0495c61904 /arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | |
| parent | ff8b16d7e15a8ba2a6086645614a483e048e3fbf (diff) | |
ARM: 6384/1: Remove the domain switching on ARMv6k/v7 CPUs
This patch removes the domain switching functionality via the set_fs and
__switch_to functions on cores that have a TLS register.
Currently, the ioremap and vmalloc areas share the same level 1 page
tables and therefore have the same domain (DOMAIN_KERNEL). When the
kernel domain is modified from Client to Manager (via the __set_fs or in
the __switch_to function), the XN (eXecute Never) bit is overridden and
newer CPUs can speculatively prefetch the ioremap'ed memory.
Linux performs the kernel domain switching to allow user-specific
functions (copy_to/from_user, get/put_user etc.) to access kernel
memory. In order for these functions to work with the kernel domain set
to Client, the patch modifies the LDRT/STRT and related instructions to
the LDR/STR ones.
The user pages access rights are also modified for kernel read-only
access rather than read/write so that the copy-on-write mechanism still
works. CPU_USE_DOMAINS gets disabled only if the hardware has a TLS register
(CPU_32v6K is defined) since writing the TLS value to the high vectors page
isn't possible.
The user addresses passed to the kernel are checked by the access_ok()
function so that they do not point to the kernel space.
Tested-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S index c09e3573c5de..35f3f20d6731 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to) THUMB( stmia ip!, {r4 - sl, fp} ) @ Store most regs on stack THUMB( str sp, [ip], #4 ) THUMB( str lr, [ip], #4 ) -#ifdef CONFIG_MMU +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_USE_DOMAINS ldr r6, [r2, #TI_CPU_DOMAIN] #endif set_tls r3, r4, r5 @@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to) ldr r8, =__stack_chk_guard ldr r7, [r7, #TSK_STACK_CANARY] #endif -#ifdef CONFIG_MMU +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_USE_DOMAINS mcr p15, 0, r6, c3, c0, 0 @ Set domain register #endif mov r5, r0 |