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>
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- arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h 7 additions, 6 deletionsarch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
- arch/arm/include/asm/domain.h 29 additions, 2 deletionsarch/arm/include/asm/domain.h
- arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h 5 additions, 4 deletionsarch/arm/include/asm/futex.h
- arch/arm/include/asm/traps.h 2 additions, 0 deletionsarch/arm/include/asm/traps.h
- arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h 8 additions, 8 deletionsarch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
- arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S 2 additions, 2 deletionsarch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
- arch/arm/kernel/fiq.c 5 additions, 0 deletionsarch/arm/kernel/fiq.c
- arch/arm/kernel/traps.c 10 additions, 4 deletionsarch/arm/kernel/traps.c
- arch/arm/lib/getuser.S 7 additions, 6 deletionsarch/arm/lib/getuser.S
- arch/arm/lib/putuser.S 15 additions, 14 deletionsarch/arm/lib/putuser.S
- arch/arm/lib/uaccess.S 42 additions, 41 deletionsarch/arm/lib/uaccess.S
- arch/arm/mm/Kconfig 8 additions, 0 deletionsarch/arm/mm/Kconfig
- arch/arm/mm/mmu.c 3 additions, 3 deletionsarch/arm/mm/mmu.c
- arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S 7 additions, 0 deletionsarch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
- arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S 3 additions, 2 deletionsarch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
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