linux/arch/arm64
Jun Yao 2b5548b681 arm64/mm: Separate boot-time page tables from swapper_pg_dir
Since the address of swapper_pg_dir is fixed for a given kernel image,
it is an attractive target for manipulation via an arbitrary write. To
mitigate this we'd like to make it read-only by moving it into the
rodata section.

We require that swapper_pg_dir is at a fixed offset from tramp_pg_dir
and reserved_ttbr0, so these will also need to move into rodata.
However, swapper_pg_dir is allocated along with some transient page
tables used for boot which we do not want to move into rodata.

As a step towards this, this patch separates the boot-time page tables
into a new init_pg_dir, and reduces swapper_pg_dir to the single page it
needs to be. This allows us to retain the relationship between
swapper_pg_dir, tramp_pg_dir, and swapper_pg_dir, while cleanly
separating these from the boot-time page tables.

The init_pg_dir holds all of the pgd/pud/pmd/pte levels needed during
boot, and all of these levels will be freed when we switch to the
swapper_pg_dir, which is initialized by the existing code in
paging_init(). Since we start off on the init_pg_dir, we no longer need
to allocate a transient page table in paging_init() in order to ensure
that swapper_pg_dir isn't live while we initialize it.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
[Mark: place init_pg_dir after BSS, fold mm changes, commit message]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2018-09-25 15:10:54 +01:00
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boot ARM: SoC: late updates 2018-08-25 14:12:36 -07:00
configs arm64: defconfig: Enable TI's AM6 SoC platform 2018-08-29 11:51:26 -07:00
crypto crypto: arm64/aes-gcm-ce - fix scatterwalk API violation 2018-08-25 19:50:43 +08:00
include arm64/mm: Separate boot-time page tables from swapper_pg_dir 2018-09-25 15:10:54 +01:00
kernel arm64/mm: Separate boot-time page tables from swapper_pg_dir 2018-09-25 15:10:54 +01:00
kvm arm64: KVM: Enable Common Not Private translations 2018-09-18 12:03:34 +01:00
lib arm64: lse: remove -fcall-used-x0 flag 2018-09-24 10:56:24 +01:00
mm arm64/mm: Separate boot-time page tables from swapper_pg_dir 2018-09-25 15:10:54 +01:00
net bpf, arm64: save 4 bytes in prologue when ebpf insns came from cbpf 2018-05-14 19:11:45 -07:00
xen arm64: mm: Add additional parameter to uaccess_ttbr0_disable 2018-01-17 13:57:49 +01:00
Kconfig arm64: Kconfig: Remove ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL 2018-09-21 12:02:45 +01:00
Kconfig.debug Kconfig: consolidate the "Kernel hacking" menu 2018-08-02 08:06:48 +09:00
Kconfig.platforms ARM: SoC: late updates 2018-08-25 14:12:36 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS 2018-08-24 08:22:08 +09:00