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/kernel/entry-armv.S | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S') 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 -- cgit v1.2.2