The cachepolicy variable gets initialized using a masked pmd
value. So far, the pmd has been masked with flags valid for the
2-page table format, but the 3-page table format requires a
different mask. On LPAE, this lead to a wrong assumption of what
initial cache policy has been used. Later a check forces the
cache policy to writealloc and prints the following warning:
Forcing write-allocate cache policy for SMP
This patch introduces a new definition PMD_SECT_CACHE_MASK for
both page table formats which masks in all cache flags in both
cases.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Keep the machine vectors in its own domain to avoid software based
user access control from making the vector code inaccessible, and
thereby deadlocking the machine.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Modern ARMv7-A/R cores optionally implement below new
hardware feature:
- PXN:
Privileged execute-never(PXN) is a security feature. PXN bit
determines whether the processor can execute software from
the region. This is effective solution against ret2usr attack.
On an implementation that does not include the LPAE, PXN is
optionally supported.
This patch set PXN bit on user page table for preventing
user code execution with privilege mode.
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jungseung Lee <js07.lee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
With LPAE, the physical address mask is 40-bit while the page table
entry is 64-bit. This patch introduces PHYS_MASK for the 2-level page
table format, defined as ~0UL.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch defines the (pte|pmd)val_t as u32 and changes the page table
types to be based on these. The PMD bits are converted to the
corresponding type using the _AT macro.
The flush_pmd_entry/clean_pmd_entry argument was changed to (void *) to
allow them to be used with both PGD and PMD pointers and avoid code
duplication.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch moves page table definitions from asm/page.h, asm/pgtable.h
and asm/ptgable-hwdef.h into corresponding *-2level* files.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
