From 247055aa21ffef1c49dd64710d5e94c2aee19b58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Catalin Marinas Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:03:21 +0100 Subject: 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 Cc: Tony Lindgren Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Russell King --- arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/arm/mm/mmu.c') diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c index 72ad3e1f56cf..79c01f540cbe 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -914,12 +915,11 @@ static void __init devicemaps_init(struct machine_desc *mdesc) { struct map_desc map; unsigned long addr; - void *vectors; /* * Allocate the vector page early. */ - vectors = early_alloc(PAGE_SIZE); + vectors_page = early_alloc(PAGE_SIZE); for (addr = VMALLOC_END; addr; addr += PGDIR_SIZE) pmd_clear(pmd_off_k(addr)); @@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ static void __init devicemaps_init(struct machine_desc *mdesc) * location (0xffff0000). If we aren't using high-vectors, also * create a mapping at the low-vectors virtual address. */ - map.pfn = __phys_to_pfn(virt_to_phys(vectors)); + map.pfn = __phys_to_pfn(virt_to_phys(vectors_page)); map.virtual = 0xffff0000; map.length = PAGE_SIZE; map.type = MT_HIGH_VECTORS; -- cgit v1.2.1